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 1 Themist     |                               II. THEMISTOCLES. ~Youth of Themistocles;
 2 Themist     |           THEMISTOCLES. ~Youth of Themistocles; he is disinherited by his
 3 Themist     |         dies at Magnesia, IX. ~I. THEMISTOCLES was the son of Neocles,
 4 Themist     |     native of Acharnae,27 of whom Themistocles was the son. Falling under
 5 Themist(27) |      Caria was the birth-place of Themistocles's mother. For my part, I
 6 Themist(27) |         among writers." Some make Themistocles the son of a Thracian woman,
 7 Themist(27) |   Plutarch, however, asserts that Themistocles was not of pure Attic blood
 8 Themist(28) |      Plutarch, Them. c. 24, which Themistocles, as arbiter, is said to
 9 Themist     |          what this answer tended, Themistocles suggested that it was Apollo'
10 Themist     |  abandoned. ~III. This measure of Themistocles was unsatisfactory to most
11 Themist     |     Euboea and the main land; for Themistocles had betaken himself to the
12 Themist     |    themselves within their walls, Themistocles alone opposed it, saying
13 Themist     |        rather by the stratagem of Themistocles than by the arms of Greece. ~
14 Themist     |           by the same leader. For Themistocles, fearing that he would persist
15 Themist     |          conquered, but saved, by Themistocles. Thus Greece was delivered
16 Themist     |        small number of ships ~VI. Themistocles was great in this war, and
17 Themist     |          the matter. This embassy Themistocles undertook, and set out first
18 Themist     |          temples and tombs. ~VII. Themistocles, when he arrived at Lacedaemon,
19 Themist     |       despatched to Athens. ~When Themistocles thought that they had reached
20 Themist     |           the Athenians then lay, Themistocles felt assured that, if he
21 Themist     |          to Ephesus, where he set Themistocles on shore, who afterwards
22 Themist     |      historians have related that Themistocles went over into Asia in the
23 Themist     |       nearest in point of time to Themistocles, and was of the same city.
24 Themist     |        letter in these words: "I, Themistocles, am come to you, a man,
25 Themist     |         him, granted his request. Themistocles devoted all that time to
26 Themist     |       table."37 ~Two memorials of Themistocles have remained to our times;
27 Themist(38) |        Pausanias that the tomb of Themistocles was to be seen in his time,
28 Aristid     |         contemporary and rival of Themistocles; is banished, I. ----After
29 Aristid     |       almost of the same age with Themistocles, and contended with him,
30 Aristid(39) | dissensions between Aristides and Themistocles from their earliest years,
31 Aristid     |            yet being overborne by Themistocles with the ostracism, he was
32 Aristid     |       died about four years after Themistocles was banished from Athens. |
33   Cimon(54) |            Hospitio.] See note on Themistocles, c. 8. Hospitium, might
34  Agesil(175)|         full year. In the Life of Themistocles, however, c. 5, Xerxes is
35    Summ     |           banished. Arist. 1.~----Themistocles begins to construct the
36    Summ     |          at Delos. Arist. 3.~471. Themistocles flees to Artaxerxes. Them.
37    Summ     |        Arist. 3.~466. ----------. Themistocles. Them. 10.~463. Cimon subdues
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