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the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 11/ </p><p>"Yes we have left behind us our houses and city walls, not accepting to be in subjection for the sake of such lifeless things; but we still have a city, the greatest in Hellas, our 200 ships, which are ready to aid you if you choose to be saved by them." </p><p>"But if you betray us for the second time, many a Hellene will learn that the Athenians have won for themselves a city that is free and a territory that is far better than the one they cast aside."</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 10/ </p><p>When the entire city was thus putting out to sea, the sight provoked pity in some, and in others astonishment at the hardihood of the step; for they were sending off their families in one direction, while they themselves, unmoved by the lamentations and tears and embraces of their loved ones, were crossing over to the island where the enemy was to be fought.</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 9/ </p><p>Then the Athenians were seized alike with rage at this betrayal, and with sullen dejection at their utter isolation. </p><p>As to the only thing left them to do in their emergency, namely, to give up their city and stick to their ships, most of them were distressed at the thought, saying that they neither wanted victory nor understood what safety could mean if they abandoned to the enemy the shrines of their gods and the sepulchres of their fathers.</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 8/</p><p>For verily the foundation of victory is courage. </p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E</span><span class="invisible">/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html</span></a></p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 7/ </p><p>They were taught by actual achievements in the face of danger that neither multitudes of ships nor brilliantly decorated figure-heads nor boastful shouts or barbarous battle-hymns have any terror for men who know how to come to close quarters and dare to fight there; </p><p>but that they must despise all such things, rush upon the very persons of their foes, grapple with them, and fight it out to the bitter end.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/courage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HowToDefendFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowToDefendFreedom</span></a></p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 6/ </p><p>In his ambition he surpassed all men. For instance, while he was still young and obscure, he prevailed upon Epicles of Hermione, a harpist who was eagerly sought after by the Athenians, to practise at his house, because he was ambitious that many should seek out his dwelling and come often to see him.</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 5/ </p><p>Themistocles carried his point, not by trying to terrify the citizens with dreadful pictures of Darius or the Persians ---these were too far away and inspired no very serious fear of their coming, but by making opportune use of the bitter jealousy which they cherished toward Aegina in order to secure the armament he desired.</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 4/</p><p>Now the rest of his countrymen thought that the defeat of the Barbarians at Marathon was the end of the war; but Themistocles thought it to be only the beginning of greater contests, and for these he anointed himself, as it were, to be the champion of all Hellas, and put his city into training, because, while it was yet afar off, he expected the evil that was to come. </p><p><a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E</span><span class="invisible">/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html</span></a></p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 3/</p><p>But in the first essays of his youth he was uneven and unstable, since he gave his natural impulses free course, which, without due address and training, rush to violent extremes in the objects of their pursuit, and often degenerate; as he himself in later life confessed, when he said that even the wildest colts made very good horses, if only they got the proper breaking and training.</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 2/</p><p>When he was set to study, those branches which aimed at the formation of character, or ministered to any gratification or grace of a liberal sort, he would learn reluctantly and sluggishly and to all that was said for the cultivation of sagacity or practical efficiency, he clearly showed an indifference far beyond his years, as though he put his confidence in his natural gifts alone.</p>

the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Themistocles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Themistocles</span></a> 1/</p><p>However lowly his birth, it is agreed on all hands that while yet a boy he was impetuous, by nature sagacious, and by election enterprising and prone to public life. </p><p>In times of relaxation and leisure, when absolved from his lessons, he would not play or indulge his ease, as the rest of the boys did, but would be found composing and rehearsing to himself mock speeches. These speeches would be in accusation or defence of some boy or other.</p>

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