DEMETRIUS
DEMETRIUS. Demetrius, while he was besieging Rhodes,
found in one of the suburbs the picture of Ialysus made
by Protogenes the painter. The Rhodians sent a herald to
him, beseeching him not to deface the picture. I will
sooner, said he, deface my father's statues, than such a
picture. When he made a league with the Rhodians, he
left behind him an engine, called the City Taker, that it
might be a memorial of his magnificence and of their courage.
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When the Athenians rebelled, and he took the city,
which had been distressed for want of provision, he called
an assembly and gave them corn. And while he made a
speech to them concerning that affair, he spoke improperly; and when one that sat by told him how the word
ought to be spoken, he said: For this correction I bestow
upon you five thousand bushels more.