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the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 16/</p><p>In his capacity as general, Pericles was famous above all things for his saving caution; he neither undertook of his own accord a battle involving much uncertainty or peril, nor did he envy and imitate those who took great risks, enjoyed brilliant good-fortune, and so were admired as great generals; and he was for ever saying to his fellow-citizens that, so far as lay in his power, they would remain alive forever and be immortals. </p><p>[Section 18]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SavingLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SavingLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Caution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SunTzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SunTzu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheArtOfWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheArtOfWar</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/thegoodrulerrespectsandprotectshisfellowcitizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thegoodrulerrespectsandprotectshisfellowcitizens</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 15/</p><p>And this was not the fruit of a golden moment, nor the culminating popularity of an administration that bloomed but for a season; nay rather he stood first for forty years among such men as Ephialtes, Leocrates, Myronides, Cimon, Tolmides, and Thucydides, and after the deposition of Thucydides and his ostracism, for no less than fifteen of these years did he secure an imperial sway that was continuous and unbroken, by means of his annual tenure of the office of general.</p><p>During all these years he kept himself untainted by corruption. </p><p>[Section 16]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 14/</p><p>For whereas all sorts of distempers, as was to be expected, were rife in a rabble which possessed such a vast empire, he alone was so endowed by nature that he could manage each one of these cases suitably, and more than anything else he used the people's hopes and fears, like rudders, so to speak, giving timely check to their arrogance, and allaying and comforting their despair. </p><p>The reason for his success was not his power as a speaker merely, but the reputation of his life and the confidence reposed in him as one who was manifestly proven to be utterly disinterested and superior to bribes.</p><p>[Section 15]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/heruledfirmlybutnotforhisownprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heruledfirmlybutnotforhisownprofit</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 13/ </p><p>To such degree, it seems, is truth hedged about with difficulty and hard to capture by research, since those who come after the events in question find that lapse of time is an obstacle to their proper perception of them; while the research of their contemporaries into men's deeds and lives, partly through envious hatred and partly through fawning flattery, defiles and distorts the truth. </p><p>[Section 13]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 12/<br> <br>For this reason are the works of Pericles all the more to be wondered at; they were created in a short time for all time. </p><p>Each one of them, in its beauty, was even then and at once antique; but in the freshness of its vigour it is, even to the present day, recent and newly wrought. </p><p>Such is the bloom of perpetual newness, as it were, upon these works of his, which makes them ever to look untouched by time, as though the unfaltering breath of an ageless spirit has been infused into them. </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Classicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Classicism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheGoldenAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoldenAge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheBloomOfPerpetualNewness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBloomOfPerpetualNewness</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/atimewheneverythingcomesnaturallytous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atimewheneverythingcomesnaturallytous</span></a> </p><p>[Section 13]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 11/ </p><p>And it is true that deftness and speed in working do not impart to the work an abiding weight of influence nor an exactness of beauty; whereas the time which is put out to loan in laboriously creating, pays a large and generous interest in the preservation of the creation. </p><p>[Section 13] </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoHaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoHaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DesignThatLasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesignThatLasts</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 10/ </p><p>And yet they say that once on a time when Agatharchus the painter was boasting loudly of the speed and ease with which he made his figures, Zeuxis heard him, and said, "Mine take, and last, a long time." </p><p>[Section 13]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoHaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoHaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThingsThatLast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsThatLast</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 9/ </p><p>So then the works arose, no less towering in their grandeur than inimitable in the grace of their outlines, since the workmen eagerly strove to surpass themselves in the beauty of their handicraft. And yet the most wonder­ful thing about them was the speed with which they rose. Each one of them, men thought, would require many successive generations to complete it, but all of them were fully completed in the heyday of a single administration.</p><p>[Section 13]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 8/ </p><p>Now there had been from the beginning a sort of seam hidden beneath the surface of affairs, as in a piece of iron, which faintly indicated a divergence between the popular and the aristocratic programme; but the emulous ambition of these two men cut a deep gash in the state, and caused one section of it to be called the "Demos," or the People, and the other the "Oligoi," or the Few. </p><p>[Section 11]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 5/ </p><p>In his funeral oration over those who had fallen in the Samian War, he declared that they had become immortal, like the gods. </p><p>"The gods themselves," he said, "we cannot see, but from the honours which they receive, and the blessings which they bestow, we conclude that they are immortal." So it was, he said, with those who had given their lives for their country. </p><p>[Section 8]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 4/ </p><p>The truth is that even Pericles, with all his gifts, was cautious in his discourse, so that whenever he came forward to speak he prayed the gods that there might not escape him unawares a single word which was unsuited to the matter under discussion. In writing he left nothing behind him except the decrees which he proposed, and only a few in all of his memorable sayings are preserved.</p><p>[Section 8]</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 3/</p><p>And so it was that Pericles, seeking to avoid the satiety which springs from continual intercourse, made his approaches to the people by intervals, as it were, not speaking on every question, nor addressing the people on every occasion, but offering himself like the Salaminian trireme, as Critolaüs says, for great emergencies. The rest of his policy he carried out by commissioning his friends and other public speakers. </p><p>[Section 7]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/reserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PowerThroughReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerThroughReserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NoMeddling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMeddling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BeTheTrireme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeTheTrireme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/letyourfriendsactonyourbehalf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>letyourfriendsactonyourbehalf</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 2/ </p><p>These two men [Pericles and Fabius Maximus] were alike in their virtues, and more especially in their gentleness and rectitude, and by their ability to endure the follies of their peoples and of their colleagues in office, they proved of the greatest service to their countries.</p><p>[Section 2]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pericles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pericles</span></a> 1/ </p><p>It is fitting that man pursue what is best, to the end that he may not merely regard it, but also be edified by regarding it. </p><p>Virtuous action straightway so disposes a man that he no sooner admires the works of virtue than he strives to emulate those who wrought them. The good things of Fortune we love to possess and enjoy; those of Virtue we long to perform. </p><p>The Good creates a stir of activity towards itself, and implants at once in the spectator an active impulse; it does not form his character by ideal representation alone, but through the investigation of its work it furnishes him with a dominant purpose. <br> <br>[from Sections 1&amp;2]</p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles*.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E</span><span class="invisible">/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles*.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VirtueBringsOutVirtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VirtueBringsOutVirtue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Camillus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Camillus</span></a> 8/ </p><p>It was a fine thing, Camillus said, even at dangerous risks, to repel the attack of an alien and barbarous folk, whose only end in getting the mastery was, as in the work of fire, the utter destruction of what it conquered.</p><p>[Section 23]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/repeltheattackofthosewhoonlywanttodestroy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repeltheattackofthosewhoonlywanttodestroy</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Camillus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Camillus</span></a> 7/ </p><p>After he had kissed his wife and son good-bye, he went from his house in silence as far as the gate of the city. There he stopped, turned himself about, and stretching his hands out towards the Capitol, prayed the gods that, if with no justice, but through the wantonness of the people and the abuse of the envious he was now being driven from his country, the Romans might speedily repent, and show to all men that they needed and longed for Camillus. </p><p>[Section 12] </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/exile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AsPatriotsWeDespairOfOurCountries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsPatriotsWeDespairOfOurCountries</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Camillus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Camillus</span></a> 6/ <br> <br>[Roamer's Note: After a month's break, I continue my selective travese through Plutarch's Parallel Lives. The life of Camilus --- Camillus had foregone an easy victory over the Falerians by refusing to accept help from a Falerian traitor. This gesture prompted the Falerians to submit themselves voluntarily to Camillus.] </p><p>"Standing in the Senate, the envoys of the Falerians declared that the Romans, by esteeming righteousness above victory, had taught them to love defeat above freedom; not so much because they thought themselves inferior in strength, as because they confessed themselves vanquished in virtue." </p><p>"Camillus took a sum of money from the Falerians, established friendship with all the Faliscans, and withdrew." </p><p>[Section 10]</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PoliticalGrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalGrace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VictoryThroughGrace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictoryThroughGrace</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E</span><span class="invisible">/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html</span></a></p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 20/</p><p>For he did not wander about over Asia, as Theopompus says, but had a house in Magnesia, and gathered in large gifts, and was honoured like the noblest Persians, and so lived on for a long time without concern, because the King paid no heed at all to Hellenic affairs, owing to his occupation with the state of the interior.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 19/</p><p>The King at once showed his pleasure at this comparison by bidding him take time, and so Themistocles asked for a year, and in that time he learned the Persian language sufficiently to have interviews with the King by himself without interpreters.</p>
the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 18/</p><p>When he had come into the King's presence, and had once more paid him obeisance, the King welcomed him and spake him kindly, and said he already owed him two hundred talents, for since he had delivered himself up it was only just that he himself should receive the reward proclaimed for his captor. And he bade him take heart, and gave him leave to say whatever he wished concerning the affairs of Hellas, with all frankness of speech.</p>
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