paralos

Updated: July 25, 2025

Nicias had approached Pericles, and, bowing to Aspasia, he whispered, "Pericles, your son Paralos is ill." "Of the pestilence! Follow me, Aspasia." "He is not my son, but yours; therefore I follow you." "The house collapses, friends depart, all beauty passes away, the ugly remains." "And the gods sleep." "Or have emigrated." "Or are dead! Let us make new ones."

August Strindberg - Historical Miniatures

There is a passage in Xenophon describing how, one summer night, in 405 B. C., people in Athens heard a cry of wailing, an oimôgê, making its way up between the long walls from the Piraeus, and coming nearer and nearer as they listened. It was the news of the final disaster of Kynoskephalai, brought at midnight to the Piraeus by the galley Paralos. 'And that night no one slept.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion