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for some
men being in distress because of the war put forward a claim to carry out a
re-division of the land of the country). Also if a man is great and
capable of being yet greater, he stirs up faction in order that he may be sole
ruler (as Pausanias who commanded the army through the Persian war
seems to have done at Sparta, and
HannoPerhaps Hanno who fought in
Sicily against the elder
Dionysius circa 4OO B.C. at Carthage).But the actual overthrow of both
constitutional governments and aristocracies is mostly due to a departure from
justice in the actual framework of the constitution. For what starts it in the
case of a constitutional government is that it does not contain a good blend of
democracy and oligarchy; and in the case of an aristocracy it is the lack of a
good blend of those two elements and of virtue, but chiefly of the two elements
(I mean popular government and oligarchy), for both
constit
Bacchylides, Epinicians (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Ode 3
For Hieron of Syracuse
Chariot-Race at Olympia
468 B. C.
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Ode 3
For Hieron of Syracuse
Chariot-Race at Olympia
468 B. C.
Clio, giver of sweet gifts, sing the praises of the mistress of most fertile Sicily, Demeter, and of her violet-garlanded daughter, and of Hieron's swift horses, racers at Olympia;
for they sped with majestic Victory and with Aglaia by the wide-whirling Alpheus, where they made the son of Deinomenes a prosperous man, a victor winning garlands.
And the people shouted, “Ah! thrice-blessed man! Zeus has granted him the honor of ruling most widely over the Greeks, and he knows not to hide his towered wealth under black-cloaked darkness.”
The temples teem with cattle-sacrificing festivities; the streets teem with hospitality. Gold flashes and glitters, the gold of tall ornate tripods standing
before the temple, where the Delphians administer the great precinct of Phoebus beside the Castalian stream. A man should honor the god, for that is the greatest prosperity.
F
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 42 (search)
For Epicerdes, as this decree then passed in his
honor declares, gave a hundred minae to our fellow-countrymen at that time
prisoners in Sicily under such
distressing circumstances,For the horrors
endured by the 7000 Athenian captives, scorched by day and frozen by night
in the deep stone-quarries of Syracuse, see Thuc.
7.87. and thus he became the chief instrument in saving them
from all perishing of hunger. Afterwards, when you had rewarded him with
immunity, seeing that in the warThe third
period of the Peloponnesian War, called the “Decelean”
War (413-404) from the Spartan fortified post at Decelea in Attica. just before the rule of the
Thirty the people were straitened for want of funds, he gave them a talent as a
freewill of
Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, section 19 (search)
Protus on his part adjured us by the gods
to put him out, declaring himself ready to sail back to Sicily; but if, despite this willingness of
his, I should give up the grain to Zenothemis, he said it made no difference to
him. To prove that I am telling the truth in this—that the plaintiff
refused to be put out of possession except by me, that he refused the challenge
to sail back to Sicily, and tp the grain to Zenothemis, he said it made no difference to
him. To prove that I am telling the truth in this—that the plaintiff
refused to be put out of possession except by me, that he refused the challenge
to sail back to Sicily, and that he
deposited the agreement in the course of the voyage—read the
depositions.
Depositions