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"Was it amusing was it clever?" "What did Anytos think?" "He made me laugh when he described some scenes." "Then it must be amusing, or you would not have laughed." "Did you not laugh, my Socrates?" "Yes, of course; otherwise they would have thought me a blockhead. You know that he has depicted me as a rogue and fool. Since I am neither, it was not serious; therefore it was in jest."
He sits on the gable-roof of the Parthenon, and views the Athenians as ants, while they are lions, with their claws pared and their teeth drawn. We, Anytos, born down there amid the skins of the tanyard and dog's-dung, we understand our perspiring brothers we know them by the smell, so to speak.
Alcibiades' dream of Hellas governing the world is also great, but the dreams of the gods are greater." "What gain do you think comes to Athens from Cleon's death?" "None! After Cleon comes Anytos. Cleon is everlasting, for Cleon is the name of an idea." Protagoras, grown old and somewhat dull, appeared in the inner courtyard. "There is Protagoras!" "The Sophist! I do not like him," said Aspasia.
The two orators began to be mutually weary, and Cleon wished for solitude in order to hatch the eggs which Anytos had laid for him. Therefore he remarked, "You say that Nicias...." "I am going to bathe," broke in Anytos; "otherwise I will get no sleep to-night." "But Alcibiades, who is he?" "He is the traitor Ephialtes, who will lead the Persian King to Thermopylae."
That is treachery." "There is nothing else to be done." "There were once Thermopylae and Salamis." "But now there is Sparta, and the Spartans are in Deceleia. Our envoys have already sailed to the Persian King." "Then we may as well remove Athene's image from the Parthenon! Anytos! look at my back; for I shall be ashamed to show my face now when I walk."
"Certain qualities which give zest to social intercourse thoughtfulness, tact, moderation." "You mean that for me?" "I mean it for Aspasia." "Is she beautiful?" "No." "Anytos declares that she is." "He tells an untruth. Do you see Anytos, Cleon's friend and my enemy?" "He is not my enemy." "But mine. You always love my enemies and hate my friends; that is a bad sign." "Your friends are bad men."
Anytos remained alone, and walked for some time up and down in front of the temple portico. Then he stopped and entered the vestibule. The priestess Theano seemed to have been waiting for him. Anytos began: "Have you obeyed the order of the Council?" "What order?" "To pronounce a curse on Alcibiades, the enemy of his country." "No, I am only ordered to bless."
"The oligarchy, you mean, Cleon." "No; donkeys. Therefore, Anytos, Athens is badly governed, for Pericles the rich man, who boasts of royal ancestors, has come to power. How can he sympathise with these people, since he has never been down there below? How can he see them rightly from above?
O Socrates!" Socrates was at last in prison, accused of having seduced the youth, and blasphemed or repudiated the gods of the State. Among the accusers were a young poetaster, Melitos, the tanner Anytos, and the orator Lykon. Socrates made his Apology, and declared that he had always believed on God, and the voice of his conscience, which he called his "demon."
And number three: Nicias is beheaded." "Then we can buy sepulchres for ourselves in the Ceramicus." Near the Temple of Nemesis in the Agora stood the tanner Anytos chatting with Thrasybulos, a hitherto obscure but rising patriot. Anytos rattled away: "Alcibiades is in Sparta; Sparta seeks the help of the Persian King; only one thing remains for us to do the same." "To go over to the enemy?
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