# Ab excessu divi Marci 1.13.6

Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, Book 1, Chapter 13. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/herodian/ab-excessu-divi-marci/1.13.6

παρὰ τοῦ τὰ δεινὰ δράσαντος εἰληφώς. προσανεῖλον δὲ καὶ τοὺς παῖδας τοῦ Κλεάνδρου ʽδύο δὲ ἦσαν ἄρρενες αὐτᾦ, πάντας τε ὅσους ᾔδεσαν ἐκείνου φίλους διεχρήσαντο: σύροντές τε τὰ σώματα καὶ πᾶσαν ὕβριν ἐνυβρίσαντες, τέλος λελωβημένους ἐς τοὺς ὀχετοὺς ἔρριψαν φέροντες. τοιούτῳ μὲν δὴ τέλει Κλέανδρός τε καὶ οἱ περὶ αὐτὸν ἐχρήσαντο, φιλοτιμησαμένης, ὡς ἄν τις εἴποι, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως ἐν ἑνὶ δεῖξαι ὅτι ἐκ τῆς ἐσχάτης εὐτελείας ἐς τὸ μέγιστον ὕψος ἆραι καὶ πάλιν τὸν ἀρθέντα ῥῖψαι ὀλίγη καὶ ἀνέλπιστος δύναται τύχης ῥοπή.

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Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, ed. Immanuel Bekker. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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