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In the time of the devastation of Greece by the
Persians, Pausanias, the Lacedaemonian commander, took
a bribe of 500 talents of Xerxes, to betray Sparta. The
treason being discovered, his father Agesilaus pressed him
so hard, that he was fain to take sanctuary in the temple
of Minerva, called Chalcioecos, where he caused the doors
to be bricked up, and his son to be immured till he died
of hunger; and his mother after this would not suffer the
body to be buried.—Chrysermus, in his Second Book of
Histories.
The Romans, being in war with the Latins, made choice
of P. Decius for their general. Now there was a certain
patrician, a young man and poor (Cassius Brutus by name),
who proposed for a certain reward to open the gates to the
enemy; but being detected, he fled to the temple of Minerva Auxiliaria. But his father Cassius, an ensign-bearer,
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shut him up there till he died of famine, and his dead
body was not allowed burial.—Clitonymus, in his Italian
History.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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