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" " And " The Delay of the Deity removing him (than to do it prematurely)? To me at least it seems so," I said. plied Patrocleas. Very good," to us also," re said I. Now con sider that if Dionysius had been punished at the be ginning of his usurped power, no Greek would have settled in Sicily, though it had been laid waste by the Carthaginians; nor would Greeks have settled in Apollonia or in Anaktorium or in the peninsula of Leukadia, if Periander had not received his punish ment a long time after (his accession to power). And I believe also that the day of reckoning for Kasarider was postponed in order that Thebes might be rebuilt. Of the mercenaries that had assisted in plundering the temple here the greater part accom panied Timoleon on an expedition to Sicily where they conquered the Carthaginians and overthrew the tyrants; then the miserable wretches died a miserable death. There is 110 doubt that the Deity sometimes employs certain men after the manner of public exe cutioners, to be the avengers of other villains, then destroys them as I think He does most tyrants. For just as the gall of the hyena find the beestings (or rennet) of the seal and other parts of repulsive animals have a property that is useful for the cure of diseases, so God inflicts on some persons who need a drasticremedy and chastisement, a stern and hard tyrant; nor does He release them from their grievous and melancholy state until He has cured their disease and purified them. Such a medicine was Phalaris to the Akragantines, and to the Romans. Marius. To the 174
The Delay of the Deity Sikyonians also the god declared explicitly that their city needed a scourge for taking away from the Kleonians the boy Teletias, crowned in the Pythian games, as their own fellow=citizen, and putting him to death. So, sure enough, when Orthagoras had be come tyrant of Sikyon, and after him Myron and Kleisthenes, he and his successors made an end their lasciviousness; the Kleonians, however, not ceiving such curative treatment, sank into insignifi cance. You know that Homer somewhere says, From him, a far baser father, was born a son better in all manner of excellence ; yet that son of Kopreus per formed no brilliant or even noteworthy exploit. But the descendants of Sisyphus and of Autolycus and of Phlegyas were conspicuous for the deeds and vir of re tues of great kings. Pericles of Athens, also sprang from a house on which rested a curse; while in Rome, Pompey the Great was the son of Strabo whose corpse the Roman people, in their hatred, cast out and trampled under foot. Why should it then be as the husbandman does not thought strange, if, just dig up the thorns lest he destroy the asparagus, and the Lydians do not burn the shrub until they have from it; so God should in like man gathered the gum ner delay to extirpate the evil arid corrupt root of an illustrious and kingly house until the proper fruit has grown from it? It was better for the Phokians to lose the countless herds of kine and horses belonging to Iphitus, as also that much gold and silver should be taken from Delphi, than not to 175 have had Ulysses
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