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EPISTLES OF PHALARIS
[Translated from Boyle's Greek text]
EPISTLE 51
To Eteonicus
I could follow your advice, and forget the enmity of all who have injured me, except Pytho; for undying anger, we are told, is out of place in one who must die; but his hostility to me I shall never forget as long as I live, nor even after my death, though the end of life brings forgetfulness to all. It is he who did me the greatest of all injuries,—in poisoning my wife Erythia because she desired to follow me into exile and refused to marry him.
EPISTLE 54
To the Citizens of Himera
There is nothing I am not ready to do on behalf of Stesichorus; even though it were to take arms against
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