Finally he stretched out his hand with the palm upwards, and then, turning it downwards, declared that he would overturn the city in the same way.ἠπείλησε is stronger than declared: see Liddell-Scott-Jones, s.v. ἀπειλέω, sense II = threaten.
τέλος ὑπτίαν τὴν χεῖρα δείξας, εἶτ᾽ αὖθις καταστρέψας ἠπείλησε τοιαύτην οὖσαν αὐτῷ τὴν πόλιν τοιαύτην ποιήσειν.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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A Threatening Hand Gesture
Plutarch, Life of Timoleon 11.2 (tr. Ian Scott-Kilvert):