Identifier: plutarchslivesfo00westrich (find matches)
Title: Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Weston, W H Plutarch Rainey, W
Subjects: Biography -- To 500 Rome -- Biography Greece -- Biography
Publisher: New York : Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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much was he filledwith joy that, it is said, even in his sleep he cried outthrice, Themistocles the Athenian is mine. As soon as it was day the king gave orders thatThemistocles should be brought before him. TheAthenian expected no favour, for the guards when theyheard his name reviled him, and one of the officers ashe passed said, The kings good fortune has broughtthee hither, thou wily serpent of Greece. But when hehad come into the presence and had prostrated him-self, the king spoke graciously to him, saying that sinceThemistocles had given himself up, the two hundredtalents offered for his taking were due to him. Further,the king assured the Athenian of protection, and com-manded him to utter all that he had to propose %AHthregard to Greece. Themistocles answering said, Amans conversation is like a piece of tapestry, which,when spread open displays the figures upon it, but whenfolded, the designs are lost to view. Therefore hebesought the king to give him time that he might learn
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THEMISTOCLES AT THE PERSIAN COURT. THEMISTOCLES 43 the Persian tongue, in order to unfold his mind freelyto the king mthout the help of an interpreter. The king, pleased with the answer, gave him a yearas he desired. Moreover, the monarch honoured himbeyond all other strangers, taking him a-hunting andconversing freely with him. For his support there weregranted to him three, as some say, or, as others have it,five cities. For these reasons Themistocles incurredthe envy of some of the Persian nobles, the more so asabout this time a number of them who attended uponthe king were dismissed from their posts, and it wassuspected that the conversations of Themistocles withthe monarch were the cause. It happened that during this time Themistocles hadoccasion to travel to the seacoast. A certain Persiannoble, who had long designed to kill him and had pre-pared murderers for the purpose, determined to carryout his plan when Themistocles should reach a certainplace, the name of which, being int

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