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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 22 | 22 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Polybius, Histories | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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343/2 B.C.When Pythodotus was archon at Athens, the Romans elected as
consuls Gaius Plautius and Titus Manlius.Pythodotus was
archon at Athens from July 343 to June 342 B.C. C. Plautius Venno
and T. Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus were the consuls of 347 B.C.
(Broughton, 1.130). In this yearPlut. Timoleon 13.2-5. Timoleon frightened the tyrant
Dionysius into surrendering the citadel, resigning his office and retiring under a safe-conduct
to the Peloponnese, but retaining his private possessions. Thus, through cowardice and meanness, he lost that celebrated tyranny which had been, as
people said, bound with fetters of steel,This was an
oft-quoted metaphor credited to the elder Dionysius; cp. above, chap. 5.4; Plut. Dion 7.3 and Plut. Dion
10.3. and spent the remaining years of his life in poverty at Corinth, furnishing
in his life and misfortune an example to all who vaunt themselves unwisely on their successes.
He who had posses