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And now let us go, as we were intending, and hear Protagoras; and when we have heard what he has to say, we may take counsel of others; for not only is Protagoras at the house of Callias, but there is Hippias of Elis, and, if I am not mistaken, Prodicus of Ceos, and several other wise men.
"Love ruins us, my dear boy," he said, thinking to preach Richard a lesson, and Richard boisterously broke out: "The love of Monsieur Francatelli, It was the ruin of et coetera." Hippias blinked, exclaiming, "Really, my dear boy! I never saw you so excited." "It's the railway! It's the fun, uncle!" "Ah!" Hippias wagged a melancholy head, "you've got the Golden Bride! Keep her if you can.
Hippias usually the silent member, as if awakened by the unnatural stillness, became sprightly, like the goatsucker owl at night and spoke much of his book, his digestion, and his dreams, and was spared both by Algernon and Adrian.
Hippias, who accompanied him, and acted as the guide of the invaders, had pointed out Marathon as the best place for a landing, for this very reason.
His father, Pisistratus, had been hated all his life for his cruelties and his crimes; and when he died, leaving two sons, Hippias and Hipparchus, a conspiracy was formed to kill the sons, and thus put an end to the dynasty. Hipparchus was killed, but Hippias escaped the danger, and seized the government himself alone.
Harmodius and Aristogiton had planned to kill Hippias first as he was arranging the order of the procession outside the city, but, upon approaching the spot where he was standing, they were thunderstruck at beholding one of the conspirators in close conversation with the despot.
All that I utter before you is forthwith taken down and read. I can withdraw or change nothing, nor make the least correction. I must therefore be all the more careful in what I say before you, and that too with regard to more than one form of composition. For there is greater variety in the works of my muse than in all the elaborate achievements of Hippias.
He determined to tell the baronet what he knew, if Richard did not come by twelve. "What is the time?" he asked Hippias in a modest voice. "Time for me to be in bed," growled Hippias, as if everybody present had been treating him badly. Mrs. Berry came in to apprise Lucy that she was wanted above. She quietly rose.
Hippias, fighting at the head of the Persian army, was one of the first to die; and when the Persians saw their companions falling around them like ripe grain under the mower's scythe, they were seized with terror, rushed toward the sea, and embarked in their vessels in great haste.
Threatening fists were shaken in the air, while behind the carceres the drivers and owners of the red party scolded, squabbled and stormed; and Hippias, who by his audacious swagger had given away the race to their hated foe to the Blues, the Christians narrowly escaped being torn in pieces. The tumult and excitement were unparalleled; but Dada saw and heard nothing.
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