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But the Spartan hegemony is then gone gone for ever gone to Athens." "Not so. Sparta hath many a worthy son beside this too arrogant Heracleid." "Yes; but where his genius of command? where his immense renown? where a man, I say, not in Sparta, but in all Greece, fit to cope with Aristides and Cimon in the camp, with Themistocles in the city of our rivals? If Pausanias fails, who succeeds?"
"Boy, boy," said Pausanias, between his ground teeth, "dost thou not see that what is sought is the disgrace of Pausanias the Heracleid? Grant that I am recalled from the head of this armament, and on the charge of Ionians, and I am dishonoured in the eyes of all Greece.
"I agree too with Agesilaus," said a third Ephor; "not because Pausanias is the Heracleid, but because he is the victorious general who demands gratitude and respect from every true Spartan." "Be it so," said Periclides, who, seeing himself thus outvoted in the council, covered his disappointment with the self-control habitual to his race.
An infinity of things befall that one man, some of which it is impossible to reduce to unity; and in like manner there are many actions of one man which cannot be made to form one action. One sees, therefore, the mistake of all the poets who have written a Heracleid, a Theseid, or similar poems; they suppose that, because Heracles was one man, the story also of Heracles must be one story.
And here, where I have heard what sages conjecture of a world which seems so far off, but to which we are so near that we may reach it in a moment, my interest might indeed be intense. For what is this world to him who came into it a slave!" "Alcman," exclaimed Pausanias, "the foster-brother of the Heracleid is no more a slave."
A welcoming shout rose from the seamen lounging on their decks as they caught sight of the renowned Heracleid. Cimon, who was on his own galley at some distance, heard the shout. "So Pausanias," he said, turning to the officers round him, "has deigned to come on board, to direct, I suppose, the manoeuvres for to-morrow."
Others exhibited in preference scenes taken from the life of Heracles, the Theban, through flattery to Candaules, himself a Heracleid, being descended from the hero through Alcaeus. Others contented themselves by decorating the entrances of their dwellings with garlands and wreaths in token of rejoicing.
The expelled Ionians took refuge with the Athenians, their kindred race. The fated house of Pelops swept away by this irruption, Sparta fell to the lot of Procles and Eurysthenes , sons of Aristodemus, fifth in descent from Hercules; between these princes the royal power was divided, so that the constitution always acknowledged two kings one from each of the Heracleid families.
"Die criminal an Heracleid king's blood the victor of Plataea my friend Pausanias!" "Rather he than Sparta. What sayest thou?" "Neither, neither," exclaimed Lysander, wringing his hands "impossible both." "Impossible both, be it so. I place before the Ephors the terrors of accrediting that charge, in order that they may repudiate it.
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