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What Lady Pure Innocence, wondering with the rest of the world? and all the while Cleon's latest sonnet hot against her heart! Is she tall, sir, or short?" "Of your height." The lady shrugged. "Oh, I like not your half-way people! And her hair but halt! We know her hair is dark: 'Ah, darkness loved beyond all light! Her eyes " He bent his head, moving yet nearer to her.
Cleon's brother Comanus was taken here; all the prisoners were first tortured, and then thrown down the rocks. At Enna Cleon made a gallant sally, and died of his wounds. Eunous fled and was pulled out of a pit with his cook, his baker, his bathman, and his fool. He is said to have died in prison of the same disease as Sulla and Herod.
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.
"To go at the head...." "That is what I was born for." "To take the lead...." "That is my place." "And conduct the triumphal procession?" "What procession?" "Ah! you did not know. Cleon's triumphal procession from the harbour." Alcibiades passed his hand downwards over his face, as though he wished to changed his mask, and it was done in a moment. "Yes, certainly, certainly, certainly.
The sausage-seller returns to tell of Cleon's utter defeat; he is quickly followed by Cleon, who appeals to Demos himself, pointing out his own services. "At the first, when I was a member of the Council, I got in vast sums for the Treasury, partly by torture, partly by throttling, partly by begging.
This Stratocles was, in all respects, an audacious and abandoned character, and seemed to have made it his object to copy, by his buffoonery and impertinence, Cleon's old familiarity with the people. His mistress, Phylacion, one day bringing him a dish of brains and neckbones for his dinner, "Oh," said he, "I am to dine upon the things which we statesmen play at ball with."
The victories he so often won over the Roman forces are placed to the credit of his lieutenant, a Cilician of the name of Cleon; but he must have been a man of considerable ability to have maintained his position so long, and to have commanded the services of those said to have been his superiors. Cleon's superiority was probably only that of the soldier.
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