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52.
In the end Periander made a proclamation, that whoever sheltered the boy in his house or spoke to him, would owe a fine to Apollo, and he set the amount.
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In view of this proclamation no one wished to address or receive the boy into his house; and besides, the boy himself did not think it right to attempt what was forbidden, but accepting it slept in the open.
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On the fourth day, when Periander saw him starved and unwashed, he took pity on him, and his anger being softened, he came near and said: “My son, which is preferable—to follow your present way of life, or by being well-disposed toward your father to inherit my power and the goods which I now possess?
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Though my son and a prince of prosperous Corinth, you prefer the life of a vagrant, by opposing and being angry with me with whom you least ought to be. For if something has happened as a result of which you have a suspicion about me, it has happened to my disadvantage and I bear the brunt of it, inasmuch as I am the cause.
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But bearing in mind how much better it is to be envied than to be pitied, and at the same time what sort of thing it is to be angry with your parents and with those that are stronger than you, come back to the house.”
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With these words Periander tried to move his son, but he said nothing else to his father, only told him that because he had conversed with him he owed the fine to Apollo. When Periander saw that his son's stubbornness could not be got around or overcome, he sent him away out of his sight in a ship to Corcyra; for Corcyra too was subject to him.
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And when he had sent him away, he sent an army against Procles his father-in-law, since he was most to blame for his present troubles; and he took Epidaurus, captured Procles, and imprisoned him.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, 1
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- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, I. Personalpronomina. Substantivische Personalpronomina (ἀντωνυμίαι αἱ πρωτότυποι).
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- LSJ, Κόρινθος
- LSJ, ἄπορος
- LSJ, ἀλήτ-ης
- LSJ, ἀλουσία
- LSJ, ἀμείβω
- LSJ, ἀντιστα^τ-έω
- LSJ, ἀπεῖπον
- LSJ, ἀσι_τ-ία
- LSJ, αἴτι-ος
- LSJ, διακαρτερ-έω
- LSJ, ἐπιτήδ-ειος
- LSJ, φθον-έω
- LSJ, κα^λινδ-έομαι
- LSJ, κήρυγ-μα
- LSJ, κρείσσων
- LSJ, μέτοχος
- LSJ, ὅσος
- LSJ, ὀφείλ-ω
- LSJ, οἰκτ-ίρω
- LSJ, πενθερός
- LSJ, πλείων
- LSJ, πότερος
- LSJ, πρός
- LSJ, θυ_μόω
- LSJ, σφεῖς
- LSJ, στέλλω
- LSJ, στοά
- LSJ, συμπίπτω
- LSJ, τοκ-εύς
- LSJ, ὑπ-οψία
- LSJ, ζημία
- LSJ, ζωγρ-έω
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