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perish, if it did not take place: and when now it did take place, they were vexed; and the orator[1] who persuaded you to it, immediately fled away. Is it necessary[2] to launch ships; the poor man approves of it, but the wealthy[3] and the farmers do not approve of it. You were vexed at the Corinthians, and they at you.[4] But now they are good,—and do you now be good to them. Argeus[5] is ignorant, but Hieronymus is clever. A hope of safety peeped out, but it is banished * * * * * * * * * * * * * Thrasybulus[6] himself not being called to our aid."
- ↑ "The Scholiast thinks Conon is meant. The bloody scenes at Corinth took place about the time that he was hastening the rebuilding of the walls at Athens (summer of 393); and the subsequent ill-humour of the Athenians and their disinclination to a continuance of the war may be considered as the cause of Conon's departure." Droysen."I do not think this alludes to Conon. The whole passage is obscure on account of the want of historical records." Brunck.
- ↑ See note on Thesm. 405.
- ↑ See note on Plut. 89.
- ↑ This is the most violent synchysis I have ever met with. See, however, Pax, 558, 559. Plut. 280, 281. Krüger, Gr. Gr. §61, 2, obs. 1, and obs. 2.
- ↑ I have followed Droysen in considering Ἀργεῖος a proper name. Smith (after Brunck's note) translates it,
"What though the Argives in the mass are dull,
Hieronymus has skill, and he's an Argive."
In Dindorf's edition of Brunck's version it stands, "Argeus rudis est, Hieronymus autem sapiens. Salus leviter caput exseruit, at illam respuitis: * * * * nec ipse Thrasybulus advocatus.""Of Argeus we know nothing. Hieronymus, according to Diodorus (xiv. 81), was one of Conon's associates. He was left in command of the fleet, while Conon himself set out for the king of Persia, to obtain permission to make war upon the Spartans, with the assistance of the Persian navy. Hieronymus' participation in the glorious sea-fight at Cnidus may have obtained some importance for an otherwise insignificant person." Droysen. - ↑ Dindorf's text exhibits marks of a lacuna between vs. 203 and vs. 204. "This very difficult passage appears to refer to this, that Thrasybulus, the well-known deliverer of the city from the domination of the Thirty, had set out in this year with forty ships to the aid of the Rhodians without waiting for their invitation, in order that they might free themselves from the domination of the Spartans. The poet means, that the good prospects obtained by the victory at Cnidus and the other events of the war would be lost through such
able to Sparta, and their eager opposition to the Spartans who approached them, proved their fidelity to the common cause." Droysen.
