Hiero by Xenophon

Author:Xenophon [Xenophon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Classical literature
Published: 2012-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

(1) The same epithets occur in Aristoph. "Plut." 89:

{ego gar on meirakion epeiles' oti

os tous dikaious kai sophous kai kosmious

monous badioimen.}

Stob. gives for {kasmious} {alkimous}.

(2) Or, "for fear of machinations." But the word is suggestive of

mechanical inventions also, like those of Archimedes in connection

with a later Hiero (see Plut. "Marcel." xv. foll.); or of

Lionardo, or of Michael Angelo (Symonds, "Renaissance in Italy,"

"The Fine Arts," pp. 315, 393).

And when he has secretly and silently made away with all such people through terror, whom has he to fall back upon to be of use to him, save only the unjust, the incontinent, and the slavish-natured? (3) Of these, the unjust can be trusted as sharing the tyrant's terror lest the cities should some day win their freedom and lay strong hands upon them; the incontinent, as satisfied with momentary license; and the slavish-natured, for the simple reason that they have not themselves the slightest aspiration after freedom. (4)

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