This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...Hellenic, it deserves precedence over the Cyropjedia, thertSafnpie and conveys to my mind the impression of having--simonides been written earlier. It describes a supposed converand Hieron. gation (probably suggested by current traditional conversations, like that between Solon and Krcesus) between the poet Simonides ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...Hellenic, it deserves precedence over the Cyropjedia, thertSafnpie and conveys to my mind the impression of having--simonides been written earlier. It describes a supposed converand Hieron. gation (probably suggested by current traditional conversations, like that between Solon and Krcesus) between the poet Simonides and Hieron the despot of Syracuse; who, shortly after the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes, had succeeded his Chap. IV. BIMOMDES AND HURON. 217 brother Gelon the former despot.1 Both of them had been once private citizens, of no remarkable consequence: but Gelon, an energetic and ambitious military man, having raised himself to power in the service of Hippokrates despot of Gela, had seized the sceptre on the death of his master: after which he conquered Syracuse, and acquired a formidable dominion, enjoyed after his death by his brother Hieron. This last was a great patron of eminent poets--Pindar, Simonides, jEschylus, Bacchylides: but he laboured under a painful internal complaint, and appears to have been of an irritable and oppressive temper.' Simonides asks of Hieron, who had personally tried both the life of a private citizen and that of a despot, which of Qncatlons the two he considered preferable, in regard to plea-pot to sures and pains. Upon this subject, a conversation of view taken some length ensues, in which Hieron declares that the nfdejf10. life of a despot has much more pain, and much less swor of pleasure, than that of a private citizen under middling circumstances: while Simonides takes the contrary side, and insists in detail upon the superior means of enjoyment, apparent at least, possessed by the despot As each of these means is successively brought forward, Hieron shews that however the matter may appear to the specta...
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