Themistocles

How To Use Themistocles In A Sentence

• When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
• Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, there could be no safety for Athens. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• It had been a saying of Aristides, "that if the Athenians desired their affairs to prosper, they ought to fling Themistocles and himself into the barathrum. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
• Mnesiphilus was an Athenian politician, apparently an older man and fellow demesman whom Themistocles had looked up to as a young man. The Battle of Salamis
• In fine, when he once had opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, 2 there could be no safety for Athens. Aristides
• In 483 B.C., the Athenian statesman Themistocles persuaded his fellow Athenians to build a navy of one hundred triremes.
• Behold Cymon, view Themistocles, and a thousand others, how they have differed, and fallen to better from themselves, and deceive the expectation of such as knowe them. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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