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Title: Plutarch's Lives : the translation called Dryden's
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Plutarch Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John D. Morris
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ing that they would send their wives and
children to Sparta, and receive support from them for their
superannuated. For, being despoiled both of their city and
country, the people were suffering extreme distress. Hav-
ing given audience to the ambassadors, they returned an
answer, upon the motion of Aristides, worthy of the high-
est admiration ; declaring, that they forgave their enemies
if they thought all things purchasable by wealth, than
which they knew nothing of greater value ; but that they
felt offended at the Lacedaemonians, for looking only to
their present poverty and exigence, without any remem-
brance of their valor and magnanimity, offering them their
victuals to fight hi the cause of Greece. Aristides, making
this proposal and bringing back the ambassadors into the
assembly, charged them to tell the Lacedaemonians, that
all the treasure on the earth or under it was of less value
with the people of Athens than the liberty of Greece.
And, showing the sun to those who came from Mardonius.
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Xerxes at Abydos gives orders for his army to depart across the Hellespont on the following day.

ARISTIDES. 223

" As long as that retains the same course, so long," said
he, " shall the citizens of Athens wage war with the Per-
sians for the country which has been wasted, and the tem-
ples that have been profaned and burnt by them." More-
over, he proposed a decree, that the priests should anathe-
matize him who sent any herald to the Medes, or deserted
the alliance of Greece.
When Mardonius made a second incursion into the coun-
try of Attica, the people passed over again into the isle of
Salamis. Aristides, being sent to Lacedæmon, reproved
them for their delay and neglect in abandoning Athens
once more to the barbarians; and demanded their assist-
ance for that part of Greece, which was not yet lost. The
Ephori, hearing this, made show of sporting all day, and
of carelessly keeping holy day (for they were then celebrating
the Hyacinthian festival), but in the night, selecting five
thousand Spartans, each of whom was attended by seven
Helots, they sent them forth unknown to those from
Athens

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