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. 1893 Excerpt: ...weeping and lamentation for the troubles of the hour. Then Charmides (he was my cousin, of my own age, and had been brought up with me in our house from childhood) said to me: --' Andocides, you see how serious our present dangers are; and though hitherto I have always shrunk from saying anything to annoy you, I am ...
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ...weeping and lamentation for the troubles of the hour. Then Charmides (he was my cousin, of my own age, and had been brought up with me in our house from childhood) said to me: --' Andocides, you see how serious our present dangers are; and though hitherto I have always shrunk from saying anything to annoy you, I am forced by our present misfortune to speak now. All your intimates and companions except us your relations have either been put to death on the charges which threaten us with destruction, or have taken to flight and pronounced themselves guilty. If you have heard anything about this affair which has occurred, speak it out, and save our lives--save yourself in the first place, then your father, whom yqu ought to love very dearly, then your brother-in-law, the husband of your only sister, --your other kinsmen, too, and near friends, so many of them; and me also, who have never given you any annoyance in all my life, but am most zealous for you and for your interests, whenever anything is to be done.' When Charmides said this, judges, and when the others besought and entreated me severally, I thought to myself, --' most miserable and unfortunate of men, am I to see my own kinsfolk perish undeservedly--to see their lives sacrificed and their property confiscated, and in addition to this their names written up on tablets as sinners against the gods, --men who are wholly innocent of the matter, --am I to see moreover three hundred Athenians doomed to undeserved destruction and the State involved in the most serious calamities, and men nourishing suspicion against each other, --or shall I tell the Athenians just what I heard from Euphiletus himself, the real culprit?'" 1 Another passage in the same speech illustrates the skill of Andocides in dramatising ..
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