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polyspaston I

postrīdiē Haterius Salvium ad āream suam dūxit ut polyspaston
eī ostentāret. ibi sedēbat ōtiōsus Glitus, magister fabrōrum. quī
cum dominum appropinquantem cōnspexisset, celeriter surrēxit
fabrōsque dīligentius labōrāre iussit.
5      tōta ārea strepitū labōrantium plēna erat. columnae ex
marmore pretiōsissimō secābantur; laterēs saxaque in āream
portābantur; ingentēs marmoris massae in plaustra pōnēbantur.
Haterius, cum fabrōs labōre occupātōs vīdisset, Salvium ad
aliam āreae partem dūxit. ibi stābat ingēns polyspaston quod ā
10  fabrīs parātum erat. in tignō polyspastī sēdēs fīxa erat. tum
Haterius ad Salvium versus,
    'mī Salvī', inquit, 'nōnne mīrābile est polyspaston? hoc tibi
tālem urbis prōspectum praebēre potest quālem paucī umquam
vīdērunt. placetne tibi?'
15      Salvius, ubi sēdem in tignō fīxam vīdit, palluit. sed, quia fabrī
oculōs in eum dēfīxōs habēbant, timōrem dissimulāns in sēdem
cōnsēdit. iuxtā eum Haterius quoque cōnsēdit. tum fabrīs
imperāvit ut fūnēs, quī ad tignum adligātī erant, summīs vīribus
traherent. deinde tignum lentē ad caelum tollēbātur. Salvius,
20  pavōre paene cōnfectus, clausīs oculīs ad sēdem haerēbat.
tandem oculōs aperuit.

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