proscriptus a triumviris, cum domo postico clam esset egressus iamque fugae expeditum initium haberet, postquam filium intus trucidari falso clamore viciniae accepit, ei se neci quam evaserat obtulit, occidendumque militibus tradidit, pluris nimirum illud momentum quo illi praeter spem incolumem videre filium contigerat quam salutem suam aestimans.
Proscribed by the Triumvirs, he left his house secretly by a back door and was ready to begin his flight without anything to stop him when a false alarm close by made him think that his son was being murdered inside. So he went to meet the death he had escaped, surrendering himself to the soldiers to be killed. Doubtless the moment in which he had the unexpected happiness to see his son unharmed was worth more to him than his own life.
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