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As for Periander's aphorism, that "to industry all things are possible," pyramid-building old Egypt, or the Druids of Stonehenge, or Scottish proverbial perseverance in Australian sheep rearing and Canadian timber clearing, will carry the point by acclamation.
With a democracy it quarrels with the nobles, and destroys them both publicly and privately, or drives them into banishment, as rivals and an impediment to the government; hence naturally arise conspiracies both amongst those who desire to govern and those who desire not to be slaves; hence arose Periander's advice to Thrasybulus to take off the tallest stalks, hinting thereby, that it was necessary to make away with the eminent citizens.
Surely this is a little like 'the language' of Periander's message, when he bid the messenger observe and report what he saw him do. It is very important to note that ideas may be conveyed in this way as well as by words, the author of the Advancement of Learning remarks, in speaking of the tradition of the principal and supreme sciences.
INTRODUCTION. By Henry Cabot Lodge. I Solon's Words of Wisdom to Croesus. II Babylon and Its Capture by Cyrus. III The Pyramid of Cheops. IV The Story of Periander's Son. I The Athenians and Spartans Contrasted. II The Plague at Athens. III The Sailing of the Athenian Fleet for Sicily. IV Completion of the Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. I The Character of Cyrus the Younger.
His message to a neighboring potentate. Periander's intolerable tyranny. His wife Melissa. The ghost of Melissa. A great sacrifice. The reason of Periander's rudeness to the assembly of females. Labda the cripple. Prediction in respect to her progeny. Conspiracy to destroy Labda's child. Its failure. The child secreted. Fulfillment of the oracle. Hippias of Athens. His barbarous cruelty.
Chilo replied, after his short concise way, You are slow and yet try to run, in imitation of your mule. Bias answered, I have been already scared with that news. Thus they jested and reparteed and played one upon another all the while they sat at table. Such costly provisions were useless here, and Periander's wisdom appeared in his frugality.
Such were our discourses upon this head, O Nicarchus. And before Solon had fully finished, in came Gorgias, Periander's brother, who was just returned from Taenarum, whither he had been sent by the advice of the oracle to sacrifice to Neptune and to conduct a deputation.
Still, as fast as he was forced to leave one house he went to another, and was received by the inmates; for his acquaintances, altho in no small alarm, yet gave him shelter, as he was Periander's son. At last Periander made proclamation that whoever harbored his son, or even spoke to him, should forfeit a certain sum of money to Apollo.
Chersias the poet broke off this discourse, and told the company of divers that were miraculously preserved to his certain knowledge, and more particularly of Cypselus, Periander's father, who being newly born, his adversary sent a party of bloody fellows to murder him.
He told us how, when he had determined to leave Italy, being hastened away by Periander's letters, he went aboard a Corinthian merchantman then in port and ready to sail; being off at sea with the winds favorable, he observed the seamen bent to ruin him, and the master of the vessel told him as much, and that they purposed to execute their design upon him that very night.
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