LIBER VII · CAPUT 23
INSTANCES OF ENDURANCE OF PAIN
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Patientia corporis, ut est crebra sors calamitatium, innumera documenta peperit, clarissimum in feminis Leaenae meretricis, quae torta non indicavit Harmodium et Aristogitonem tyrannicidas, in viris Anaxarchi, qui, simili de causa cum torqueretur, praerosam dentibus linguam unamque spem indicii in tyranni os expuit.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
Of patience in enduring pain, that being too frequently the lot of our calamitous fate, we have innumerable instances related. One of the most remarkable instances among the female sex is that of the courtesan Leæna, who, although put to the torture, refused to betray the tyrant-slayers, Harmodius and Aristogiton. Among those of men, we have that of Anaxarchus, who, when put to the torture for a similar reason, bit off his tongue and spit it into the face of the tyrant, thus destroying the only hope of his making any betrayal.