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Antagoras surveyed them with a fierce joy, and, with a change of tone, thus continued: "Ye understand me, ye know already that a delivery is to be achieved. I pass on: I submit to your wisdom the mode of achieving it. While I speak, a swift-sailing vessel bears to Sparta the complaints of myself, of Uliades, and of many Ionian captains here present, against the Spartan general.
"And whither so fast, fellow?" said Uliades the Samian, turning round as he heard the strides of the Mothon. "Please you, master, I am bound to the General." "Oh, his slave! Is he going to free you?" "I am already as free as a man who has no city can be." "Pithy. The Spartan slaves have the dryness of their masters. How, sirrah! do you jostle me?" "I crave pardon. I only seek to pass."
"I shall die childless, perhaps," answered the Chian; "and any friend will give me enough to pay Charon's fee across the Styx." "That is a melancholy reflection," said Uliades, "and there is no subject of talk that pleases me less than that same Styx. Why dost thou bite thy lip, and choke the sigh? By the Gods! art thou not happy?" "Happy!" repeated Antagoras, with a bitter smile. "Oh, yes!"
He plotted with the implacable Uliades and the other Ionian captains to send to Sparta a formal mission stating their grievances against the Regent, and urging his recall.
"When a Helot is brave, the Ephors clap the black mark against his name, and at the next crypteia he suddenly disappears." "Pausanias may share the same fate as his Helot, for all I care," quoth Uliades. "Well, Athenians, what say you to the answer we have received?" "That Sparta shall hear of it," answered Aristides. "Ah, but is that all?
I recognize the vine tree and the image of the Bromian god; and surely that other one is the Chimera under Uliades, the Samian. They come hither, the Ionian with them, to harangue against obedience to my orders." "They come hither to assault us," exclaimed Erasinidas; "their beaks are right upon us."
"Companions, one cup more, and let it be to Harmodius and Aristogiton. Let the song in their honour come only from the lips of free citizens, of our Ionian comrades. Uliades, begin. I pass to thee a myrtle bough; and under it I pass a sword."
"Music, and the music of Lydia!" then shouted Antagoras, and resumed his place on the couch beside Uliades. The music proceeded, the wines circled. "Friend," whispered Uliades to the host, "thy father left thee wines, I know. But if thou givest many banquets like this, I doubt if thou wilt leave wines to thy son."
You yourselves must do that which will annul all power in the Spartan, and then if ye come to Athens ye will find her as bold against the Doric despot as against the Barbarian foe." "But speak more plainly. What would you have us do?" asked Uliades, rubbing his chin in great perplexity. "Nay, nay, I have already said enough.
"But," said the Lesbian who had before spoken, "the Athenians as yet have held back and declined our overtures, and without them we are not strong enough to cope with the Peloponnesian allies." "The Athenians will be compelled to protect the Ionians, if the Ionians in sufficient force demand it," said Uliades. "For as we are nought without them, they are nought without us.
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