. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. hearts !Before the people, and before the goddess,Thou hadst evinced the madness of thy passion,And now wouldst bear from home and plenteousnessTo poverty and exile, this my shuddered Thrasymedes, and exclaimed: — I see my crime; I saw it not daughter of Peisistratos was bornNeither for exile nor for poverty,Ah! nor for me! He would have wept, but oneMight see him, and weep worse. The
. The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions. hearts !Before the people, and before the goddess,Thou hadst evinced the madness of thy passion,And now wouldst bear from home and plenteousnessTo poverty and exile, this my shuddered Thrasymedes, and exclaimed: — I see my crime; I saw it not daughter of Peisistratos was bornNeither for exile nor for poverty,Ah! nor for me! He would have wept, but oneMight see him, and weep worse. The prince unmovedStrode on, and said, To-morrow shall the peopleAll who beheld thy trespasses beholdThe justice of Peisistratos, the loveHe bears his daughter, and the reverenceIn which he holds the highest law of God. He spake; and on the morrow they were one. DEMOSTHENES ON THE CROWN. [Demosthenes, the greatest orator of antiquity, the son of a rich Athenianmanufacturer, was born about 385. His father dying when the boy wassmall, his education was neglected ; but at seventeen he began to train himselfin oratory, in spite of a bad stammer and weak lungs. His oratory was applied. DEMOSTHENES DEMOSTHENES ON THE CROWN. 781 partly to If illy to Opposing the attempts of Philip oi Uaoedon to form a league against Persia under Macedonian hegemony. vrardioe, bribery, etc, by his rival JBnbim turned the tables by his oration On the Crown. gaining a golden CTOWn Coxhis political oonduol and tending hi> rival into exile. After several ape and downs, — being onee banished, but recalled with enthusiasm after Alexandersdeath. —he poisoned himself, 822, to avoid being delivered up to Antipater. | Thk Finale. I holi> the fortune of our commonwealth to be good, andbo I find the oracles of DodonsBan Jupiter and Pythian Apollo declaring to us. The fortune of all mankind, which now pre-vails, I consider cruel and dreadful: for what Greek, whatbarbarian, has not in these times e
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