Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, there could be no safety for Athens. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Ergo ut praelocuti sumus, quomodo unumquodque dictum sit, consideremus ne forte per ignorantiam in barathrum decidamus erroris. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Nec quidquam in barathrum, nec tartara deddit atra. From Wordnik.com. [T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex] Reference
The gallows perhaps is the English term most nearly corresponding to the barathrum, as commonly spoken of in the Athenian popular language. From Wordnik.com. [Aristides] Reference
In fine, when he once had opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, 2 there could be no safety for Athens. From Wordnik.com. [Aristides] Reference
When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference
Aestus in abruptum detulerat barathrum, quale ferunt Grai Pheneum prope Cylleneum. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendship of Allius] Reference
Ergo ut praelocuti sumus, quomodo unumquodque dictum sit, consideremus ne forte per ignorantiam in barathrum decidamus erroris. ". From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
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