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Updated: May 9, 2025
We find testimony in the comic writers, as when Teleclides, speaking of one of the professed informers, says: Charicles gave the man a pound, the matter not to name, That from inside a money-bag into the world he came; And Nicias, also, paid him four; I know the reason well, But Nicias is a worthy man, and so I will not tell.
When, therefore, he was pitched upon for a general, and joyfully accepted as such by the suffrages of the people, Teleclides, who was at that time the most powerful and distinguished man in Corinth, began to exhort him that he would act now like a man of worth and gallantry: "For," said he, "if you do bravely in this service, we shall believe that you delivered us from a tyrant; but if otherwise, that you killed your brother."
Teleclides says the Athenians had surrendered to him The tributes of the cities, and, with them, the cities, too, to do with them as he pleases, and undo; To build up, if he likes, stone walls around a town; and again, if so he likes, to pull them down; Their treaties and alliances, power, empire, peace, and war, their wealth and their success forevermore.
And a second, Teleclides, says, that now, in embarrassment with political difficulties, he sits in the city, Fainting underneath the load Of his own head; and now abroad, From his huge gallery of a pate, Sends forth trouble to the state.
And Teleclides says the Athenians had surrendered up to him The tribute of the cities, and with them, the cities too, to do with them as he pleases, and undo; To build up, if he likes, stone walls around a town; and again, if so he likes, to pull them down; Their treaties and alliances, power, empire, peace, and war, their wealth and their success forevermore.
The Attic poets called him squill-head, and the comic poet Cratinus, in his play Chirones, says; "From Chronos old and faction Is sprung a tyrant dread, And all Olympus calls him The man-compelling head." And again in the play of Nemesis: "Come, hospitable Zeus, with lofty head." Teleclides, too, speaks of him as sitting
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