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His trees extended their cool, umbrageous branches over the merchants who assembled in the Agora, for many generations. He was a friend of Solon, but usurped supreme power in 560; was twice expelled and then restored to power. Those merchants certainly had deserved that act of bounty; for all the while their ships had been carrying forth the intellectual fame of Athens to the Western world.

Melas took them each by the hand, and found an out-of-the-way corner near a stall where young girls were selling wreaths, and there they ate their luncheon, while they watched the people swarming about them. The flowers-sellers, the bread-women, and some flute-girls were almost the only women in sight, but the whole Agora was full of men.

Only one man found it hard to join the mirth whole-heartedly. And this was the victor’s bosom friend,—Democrates. In Athens! Shall one mount the Acropolis or enter the market place? Worship in the temple of the Virgin Athena, or descend to the Agora and the roar of its getters and spenders? For Athens has two facestoward the ideal, toward the commonplace. Who can regard both at once?

Above Hermione’s head rose a few blackened columns,—all that was left of the holy house of Athena,—but the crystalline air and the red Rock of the Acropolis no Persian had been able to take away. And even as Hermione crossed the Agora she heard a shouting, a word running from lip to lip as a wave leaps over the sea. In the centre of the buzzing mart she stopped.

The long walls to the Peiræus were completed—a double wall, as it were, with a space between them large enough to secure the communication between the city and the port, in case an enemy should gain a footing in the wide space between the Peiræan and Thaleric walls. The port itself was ornamented with beautiful public buildings, of which the Agora was the most considerable.

And I must beg of you to grant me a favour: If I defend myself in my accustomed manner, and you hear me using the words which I have been in the habit of using in the agora, at the tables of the money-changers, or anywhere else, I would ask you not to be surprised, and not to interrupt me on this account.

He may be selling more things than carpets. If he has corrupted any here in Athens,—by Pluto the Implacable, I will make them tell out the price!” “I’ll inquire at once.” “Do so. The matter grows serious.” Themistocles caught sight of one of the archons and hastened across the Agora to have a word with him. Democrates passed his hand across his forehead, beaded with sudden sweat-drops.

They were distributed in great numbers throughout Athens, and always in the most conspicuous situations; standing beside the outer doors of private houses as well as of temples near the most frequented porticoes at the intersection of crossways in the public agora.

Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askalon I Two thousand years after the time of Aristotle, we see a prevailing school working directly back to the condition of affairs which existed in the Athenian agora under the disapproving eyes of the father of political philosophy.

Whether clamouring in the Agora whether loitering in the Academe whether sacrificing to Hercules in the temple whether laughing at Hercules on the stage whether with Miltiades arming against the Mede whether with Demosthenes declaiming against the Macedonian still unmistakeable, unexampled, original, and alone in their strength or their weakness, their wisdom or their foibles their turbulent action, their cultivated repose.