brevis huius facti narratio, sed non parva materia laudationis: nam si quis ante oculos ponere velit subitum militum accursum, convulsa ianuae claustra, minacem vocem, truces vultus, fulgentia arma, rem vera aestimatione prosequetur, nec quam cito dicitur aliquem pro alio mori voluisse, tam id ex facili etiam fieri potuisse arbitrabitur.
The act is short in the telling, but no small matter for praise. If we choose to imagine the sudden inrush of the soldiers, the door bolts forced, the threatening words, the fierce visages, the gleaming weapons, we shall make a true estimate of the case, nor think that in the time it takes to say that one man chose to die for another the thing could actually have been done so easily.
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