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When Atepomarus, king of the Gauls, was at war with the Romans, he said he would never retire unless the Romans should surrender their wives for intercourse. But the Romans, on the advice of their maid-servants, sent slave-women; and the barbarians, exhausted by unremitting intercourse, fell asleep. But Rhetana (for she had been the author of this advice), by taking hold of a wild fig-tree, climbed upon the wall and informed the consuls; and the Romans attacked and conquered. From this the Servants’ Festival takes its name. Cf. Life of Romulus, xxix. (36 e-f); Life of Camillus, xxiii. (145 f ff.); Macrobius, Saturnalia, i. 11. 35-39. So Aristeides the Milesian in the first book of his Italian History.
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When the Athenians were engaged in a war against Eumolpus, Cf. 310 d, supra; Frazer on Apollodorus, iii. 15. 4 (L.C.L. vol. ii. p. 110). and their supply of food was insufficient, Pyrander, the treasurer of the public funds, secretly reduced the unit of measure and distributed food very sparingly. But his countrymen suspected that he was a traitor and stoned him to death. So Callisthenes in the third book of his Thracian History.
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When the Romans were waging war against the Gauls, and their supply of food was insufficient, Cinna secretly reduced the distribution of grain to the people. But the Romans stoned him to death on the suspicion that he had designs on the kingship. So Aristeides in the third book of his Italian History.
