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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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Phocion 29

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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ho used to do these offices for hire, took the body and carried it beyond Eleusis, and procuring fire from over the frontier of Megara, burned it. Phocion’s wife, with her servant-maids,being present and assisting at the solemnity, raised there anempty tomb, and performed the customary libations, andgathering up the bones in her lap, and bringing them home bynight, dug a place for them by the fireside in her house, saying,“Blessed hearth, to your custody I commit the remains of agood and brave man, and, I beseech you, protect and restorethem to the sepulchre of his fathers, when the Athenians returnto their right minds,” And, indeed, a very little time and their own sad experiencesoon informed them what an excellent governor, and how greatan example and guardian of justice and of temperance they hadbereft themselves of. And now they decreed him a statue ofbrass, and his bones to be buried honourably at the publiccharge; and for his accusers, Agnonides they took themselves,and caused him to be put to death. Epicurus and Demophilus,who fled from the city for fear, his son met with, and took hisrevenge upon them. This son of his, we are told, was in generalof an indifferent character, and once when enamoured of a slavegirl kept by a common harlot merchant, happened to hearTheodorus, the atheist, arguing in the Lyceum, that if it werea good and honourable thing to buy the freedom of a friend inthe masculine, why not also of a friend in the feminine, if, forexample, a master, why not also a mistress? So putting the |good argument and his passion together, he went off andpurchased the girl’s freedom. The death which was thussuffered by Phocion revived among the Greeks the memory ofthat of Socrates, the two cases being so similar, and both equallythe sad fault and misfortune of the city.
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