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137.
The king listened to him and raised him up
with his son, as he was sitting with him in his arms after the most
effectual method of supplication, and on the arrival of the Lacedaemonians
not long afterwards, refused to give him up for anything they could say, but
sent him off by land to the other sea to Pydna in Alexander's dominions, as
he wished to go to the Persian king.
[2]
There he met with a merchantman on the point of starting for Ionia.
Going on board, he was carried by a storm to the Athenian squadron which
was blockading Naxos.
In his alarm—he was luckily unknown to the people in the
vessel—he told the master who he was and what he was flying for,
and said that, if he refused to save him, he would declare that he was
taking him for a bribe.
Meanwhile their safety consisted in letting no one leave the ship until a
favorable time for sailing should arise.
If he complied with his wishes, he promised him a proper recompense.
The master acted as he desired, and, after lying to for a day a night out
of the reach of the squadron, at length arrived at Ephesus.
[3]
After having rewarded him with a present of
money, as soon as he received some from his friends at Athens and from his
secret hoards at Argos, Themistocles started inland with one of the
Coast-Persians, and sent a letter to King Artaxerxes, Xerxes' son, who had
just come to the throne.
[4]
Its contents were as follows: ‘I, Themistocles, am come to you,
who did your house more harm than any of the Hellenes, when I was compelled
to defend myself against your father's invasion,—harm, however,
far surpassed by the good that I did him during his retreat, which brought
no danger for me but much for him.
For the past, you are a good turn in my debt,’—here he
mentioned the warning sent to Xerxes from Salamis to retreat, as well as his
finding the bridges unbroken, which, as he falsely pretended, was due to
him,—‘for the present, able to do you great service, I
am here, pursued by the Hellenes for my friendship for you.
However, I desire a year's grace, when I shall be able to declare in person
the objects of my coming.’
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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- LSJ, ἀποσα^λεύω
- LSJ, ἀσφαλ-ής
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- LSJ, ἐκβαίνω
- LSJ, ἐπικίνδυ_ν-ος
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- LSJ, καταφέρω
- LSJ, μέχρι^
- LSJ, ναύκληρ-ος
- LSJ, ὀφείλ-ω
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