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And truly it is strange to think to what a pitch of greatness Athens came during the hundred years after she had freed herself from the despotism of Pisistratus; and far stranger to contemplate the marvellous growth which Rome made after freeing herself from her kings.
The sovereign power in Athens belongs to us, its nobles; but Cimon by laying his chaplet at the feet of Pisistratus has acknowledged the tyrants, and branded himself as their servant. He shall hear that Phanes cares little for the tyrant's clemency. I choose to remain an exile till my country is free, till her nobles and people govern themselves, and dictate their own laws.
This had originally been passed as a precaution against men in high office, because Pisistratus took advantage of his position as a popular leader and general to make himself tyrant; and the first person ostracized was one of his relatives, Hipparchus son of Charmus, of the deme of Collytus, the very person on whose account especially Cleisthenes had enacted the law, as he wished to get rid of him.
"For," said he to my father, "I felt the blood surging to my temples; and if I had said to Pisistratus, 'Describe this man, and by his description I had recognized my son, and dreaded lest I might be too late to arrest him from so treacherous a crime, my brain would have given way, and so I did not dare!" I return to the thread of my story.
The sons of Pisistratus, who succeeded their father in the tyranny at Athens, caused Cimon to be assassinated, but they treated the young Miltiades with favour and kindness; and when his brother Stesagoras died in the Chersonese, they sent him out there as lord of the principality.
Alan, who is a lazy animal, is quite content to let it alone; but woman, being the more active, bustling, curious creature, is always for giving it a sly stir." "I assure you, that if Pisistratus had not called me, I should not have " "Certainly you would not. A dead silence for half-an-hour, at the end of which "Blanche, my dear, I want to consult you." Blanche does not stir.
According to the grave authority of Aristotle, the ashes of Solon were scattered over the Isle of Salamis, which had been the scene of his earlier triumphs; and Athens, retaining his immortal, boasted not his perishable remains. VI. Pisistratus directed with admirable moderation the courses of the revolution he had produced. Many causes of success were combined in his favour.
My dear father, you must see him." Mr. Caxton. "I? Yes, assuredly, if I can be of any service. But will he listen to me?" Pisistratus. "I think so. A young man will often respect in his elder what he will resent as a presumption in his contemporary." Mr. Caxton. In what part of the mouldering timbers can I fix the grappling-hook?
The silence of Aristarchus, however, affords no safe ground of argument to believers or disbelievers in the original edition written out by order of Pisistratus.
At that time he was a camel in Bactria. Pisistratus, according to the doctrine of metempsychosis you might have been a Bactrian camel when that which to my life was the siege of Troy saw Roland and Trevanion before the walls.
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