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Tut! thou art as conscious as I am that thou mightest as well compare the hat on thy brow to the brain it hides as liken the stolid Dorcis to the fiery but profound Heracleid." "Ay, ay! But there is one merit the hat has which the brow has not it can do no harm. Shall we send our chiefs to be made worse men by Eastern manners?
Periclides, hast thou schemed this from the first?" Periclides changed colour at finding himself thus abruptly detected, and as abruptly charged; however, he answered with laconic dryness, "Friend, did I scheme the revolt of the Ionians? But if thou knowest a better man than Dorcis, speak. Is he not brave?" "Yes." "Skilful?" "No.
Dorcis has dull wit, granted; no arts can corrupt it; he may not save the hegemony, but he will return as he went, a Spartan." "Thou art right again, and a wise man, Periclides. I submit. Thou hast my vote for Dorcis. What else hast thou designed? for I see now that whatever thou designest that wilt thou accomplish; and our meeting on the Archeion is but an idle form."
XVI. Dorcis, finding his pretensions successfully rebutted, returned home; and the Spartans, never prone to foreign enterprise, anxious for excuses to free themselves from prosecuting further the Persian war, and fearful that renewed contentions might only render yet more unpopular the Spartan name, sent forth no fresh claimants to the command; they affected to yield that honour, with cheerful content, to the Athenians.
Hast thou any reason to think that thy father Dorcis will be sent to replace Pausanias the great Pausanias!" Percalus. "Dorcis, my father, is a warrior whom Sparta reckons second to none; a most brave captain, and every inch a Spartan; but but " Lysander. "Percalus, do not trifle with me. Thou knowest how my fate has been linked to the Regent's.
"Nay, nay," said Periclides, with his austere smile, "thou givest me a wit and a will that I have not. But as chief of the Ephors I watch over the State. And though I design nothing, this I would counsel, On the day we answer the Ionians, we shall tell them, 'What ye ask, we long since proposed to do. And Dorcis is already on the seas as successor to Pausanias."
Proposition of the Spartans in the Amphictyonic Council defeated by Themistocles. Allied Fleet at Cyprus and Byzantium. Pausanias. Alteration in his Character. His ambitious Views and Treason. The Revolt of the Ionians from the Spartan Command. Pausanias recalled. Dorcis replaces him. The Athenians rise to the Head of the Ionian League. Delos made the Senate and Treasury of the Allies.
And that same night I overheard Dorcis say to my mother, 'If I could succeed Pausanias, and conclude this war, I should be consoled for not having commanded at Platam. And my mother, who is proud for her husband's glory, as a woman should be, said, 'Why not strain every nerve as for a crown in Olympia? Periclides will aid thee thou wilt win." Lysander.
"When will Dorcis leave?" said Agesilaus, curtly. "If the other Ephors concur, to-morrow night." "Here we are at my doors, wilt thou not enter?" "No. I have others yet to see. I knew we should be of the same mind."
The Spartans sent Dorcis, with some colleagues, to replace Pausanias in the command; but the allies were already too disgusted with the yoke of that nation to concede it. And the Athenian ascendency was hourly confirmed by the talents, the bearing, and the affable and gracious manners of Aristides.
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