A General History of Greece From the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander T
A General History of Greece From the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander T
Cox, George W. (George William), 1827-1902
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Such, we cannot doubt, was the temper of a large body of moderate and sober-minded men ; but for the present the majority was carried away by a weak 1 Xen. H. I. 4, 12. =■ Xen. H. I. 4, 17. 456 THE EMPIRE OF ATHENS. [Book III, sympathy with the sufferings which he took care to parade in his speeches before the senate and the assembly. In moving words he j)rotested his innocence of all impiety, and with brazen impudence declared himself an injured man. So well did he play his part and so well wa...s he supported by his friends that before the assembly dispersed he found himself once more general with full powers. But if he had landed, as some would have it, on an unlucky day, the recurrence of the mysteries of the (rreat Mother furnished an opportunity of wliich a man like Alkibiades would avail himself with eager delight. For seven years, that is to say, since the time when on his own vehement advice Agis had been sent to fortify and hold Dekeleia, the procession along the sacred road to Eleusis had been necessarily given up, and the communicants with their sacred vessels had been conveyed thither, as best they might, by sea.
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