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First Line: Pausanias you may praise
Last Line: To themistocles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Timokreon Of Rhodes


PAUSANIAS you may praise,
Or Xanthippus' noble ways,
Or Leutychidas; but I
Rank Aristides high
From Athens' holy town.
Him best of all I rate,
Since now, from Leto's hate,
Themistocles is down.

Cheat, blackguard, traitor, he
From crooked bribery
Refused to take his friend
Timocreon, or send
Him to his island home.
He pocketed the pay,
And then he sailed away
To the devil and to doom.

Some wrongly home he brought,
Some he murdered, some out-fought;
Then gorged with vicious gains
At the Isthmus entertains,
But his cold meats did not please.
They ate, and swore that they
Would no attention pay
To Themistocles.





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