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And yet, for that matter, the common people also held him in favour and aided his ambitions. For although Cleon had great influence with them
‘by coddling them, and giving frequent jobs for pay,’1 yet the very men whose favour he thus sought to gain were aware of his rapacity and fierce effrontery, for the most part preferred Nicias as their champion. The dignity of Nicias was not of the harsh, offensive sort, but was blended with much circumspection, and won control of the people from the very fact that he was thought to be afraid of them.
1 An iambic trimeter from an unknown comic poet (;Kock, Com. Att. Frag., iii. p. 400).
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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