The History of Greece, 3. köideC. Scribner, 1872 |
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Page 539 - Herenpon, however, he had restored the democratic constitutions on the islands ; he had taken a creditable part in the conflicts in the Hellespont, and had commanded the Attic squadron at Chrysopolis (p. 502). Yet his ambition and vanity remained unsatisfied ; he wished to play the first part, instead of which he found himself unnoticed and of no account: and as this was intolerable to him, and as he was wholly devoid of fixed principle, and was seriously attached neither to the one side nor to the...
Page 539 - ... to divest his native city of the advantages gained by her ; for he possessed sufficient sagacity to perceive, that nothing short of the most hopeless confusion and extreme pressure of war would induce the citizens to renounce their constitution, and to leave the party of the oligarchs at the helm. And although, in the present case, Theramenes was himself involved to this extent, that if any one was to blame for the death of the wrecked, he was the guilty man ; yet he was resolved to take advantage...
Page 564 - Patroclides, proposed : that public debtors, and those who had been condemned in public suits, or whose case was still under judgment, those who had formerly been members of the Four Hundred, together with all who had wholly or partially forfeited their civic rights, should be reinstated in their full rights and honors, all previous documents regarding them being at the same time destroyed.