The Wise Men of Greece in a Series of Dramatic Dialogues
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There are no better men in Sicily, friends of the people, true to the back- bone. Nevertheless they are of that quality which is more quick to spy what is bad in the conduct of affairs than apt to strike for what is good. Pausanias, certainly, will go with us ; but he will be more pro- fitable in teaching another to move than in moving himself. Second Citizen. What other ? Empedocles ? Embadius. Whom else? There is no man in Agrigentum will serve our purpose like the son of Meton. He carries a ...weight and authority with all classes that belongs to no man else. He is clothed with a certain majesty that sits upon him as naturally as a helmet on the head of Mars, and as lightly as a plume on an eagle's wing. There is not a senator in the whole EMPEDOCLES. 141 hall of Audience can do a base thing and look Empe- docles in the face. The splendid purple of their fair pretences pales at his breath, and shrinks to tatters at his touch. He is a man from top to toe ; cataphract behind and before ; plated with golden proof against all knavery.
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