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<strong>The</strong> princess<br />

Gorgo lays<br />

down the<br />

moral law.<br />

lb. 51.<br />

Spartan<br />

women;<br />

Greece, 58,<br />

59 Ancient<br />

;<br />

World, 114,<br />

IIS- <strong>The</strong><br />

story <strong>of</strong><br />

Gorgo is<br />

interesting<br />

in view <strong>of</strong> the<br />

respect paid<br />

to women at<br />

Sparta.<br />

Aristagoras<br />

at Athens,<br />

4Q9-498 B.C.<br />

Hdt. V. 97.<br />

156 <strong>The</strong> Ionic Revolt<br />

had begun to give <strong>of</strong> the way, said, "Guest-friend from<br />

Miletus,<br />

get thee away from Sparta before the sun has<br />

set; for thou speakest a word which sounds not well in the<br />

ears <strong>of</strong> the Lacedaemonians, desiring to take them a journey<br />

<strong>of</strong> three months away from the sea."<br />

Cleomenes accordingly having so said went away to<br />

his house; but Aristagoras took the suppliant's branch<br />

and went to the house <strong>of</strong> Cleomenes; and having entered<br />

in as a suppliant, he bade Cleomenes send away the child<br />

and listen to him: for the daughter <strong>of</strong> Cleomenes was<br />

standing by him, whose name was Gorgo, and this it<br />

chanced was his only child, being <strong>of</strong> the age now <strong>of</strong> eight<br />

or nine years. Cleomenes however bade him say that<br />

which he desired to say, and not to stop on account <strong>of</strong> the<br />

child. <strong>The</strong>n Aristagoras proceeded to promise him money,<br />

beginning with ten talents, if he would accomplish for<br />

him that for which he was asking; and when Cleomenes<br />

refused, Aristagoras went on increasing the sums <strong>of</strong> money<br />

<strong>of</strong>fered, until at last he had promised fifty talents, and at<br />

that moment the child cried out, "Father the stranger will<br />

do thee hurt, if thou do not leave him and go."<br />

Cleomenes<br />

then, pleased by the counsel <strong>of</strong> the child, departed into<br />

another room, and Aristagoras went away from Sparta<br />

altogether, and had no opportunity <strong>of</strong> explaining any<br />

further about the way up from the sea to the residence <strong>of</strong><br />

the king. . . .<br />

While they (the Athenians) had these thoughts and had<br />

been set at enmity with the Persians, at this very time<br />

Aristagoras the Milesian, ordered away from Sparta by<br />

Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, arrived at Athens; for<br />

this was the city which had most power <strong>of</strong> all the rest<br />

besides Sparta. And Aristagoras came forward before<br />

the assembly <strong>of</strong> the people and said the same things as

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