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The Attic poets called him squill-head, and the comic poet, Kratinus, in his play 'Cheirones, says, "From Kronos 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." Telekleides, too, speaks of him as sitting
Telekleides, speaking of some informer, says: "Charikles a mina gave him, fearing he might say Charikles himself was born in a suspicious way; And Nikias five minas gave. Now, what his reasons were I know full well, but will not tell, for he's a trusty fere."
And Telekleides says, that the Athenians delivered up into his hands "The tribute from the towns, the towns themselves, The city walls, to build or to destroy, The right of making either peace or war, And all the wealth and produce of the land."
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