THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

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he was, for the most part, surrounded. He was the
Kallikratidas of modern Greece; and to him apply
perfectly the words in which Grote paints the character
of the noble Spartan:
'
Besides perfect courage, energy,
and incorruptibility, he was distinguished for
two qualities, both of them very rare among eminent
Greeks; entire straightforwardness of dealing, and a
Pan-Hellenic patriotism alike comprehensive, exalted,
and merciful.' 1
While most of the other leaders of
the revolt were thinking only how they could best attain
to wealth and power, he devoted the whole of his
private fortune to the cause of Greece ;
all his efforts to inspire his colleagues
and even when
and his crews
with some of his own disinterested patriotism failed,
his unshaken firmness might well have earned for him
a guerdon similar to that once bestowed by the Eomau
Senate on the Consul who had shared in the crushing
*
defeat of Cannae and yet had not despaired of Rome/
Even by the bitterest critics of the Greeks he is excepted
from the condemnation which is the lot of all
the rest. By one of these a story characteristic of him
is told. 2
The men of his squadron had been pillaging
1 Grote, History of Greece, ed. 1883, vii. 403.
2 The French Captain Peyronnet. He adds: ' L'admiration
dont j'etais rempli pour cet homme-la s'est sauvee du
naufrage de mon enthousiasme pour ses compatriotes, et
meme pour la cause des Grecs.' Lem. p. 68.