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Themistocles

noun
1.
Athenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC).





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... partisan homilies dwelling on the brutality of conquest and on all the harsh features of alien rule, whilst they leave sedulously in the background that aspect of the case which Polybius, parodying a famous saying of Themistocles, embodied in a phrase which he attributes to the Greeks after they had been absorbed into the Roman Empire, "If we had not been quickly ruined, we should not have been saved." This pessimistic aspect of Imperialism has certainly to some extent an historical basis. ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring


Words linked to "Themistocles" :   statesman, solon, national leader


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