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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XI, Chapter 55 (search)
the tyranny of Peisistratus and his sons; and the law was as follows.The institution of ostracism was incorporated in one of the laws of Cleisthenes, and was passed in 507 B.C. but first used, according to Aristotle (Aristot. Ath. Pol. 22), twenty years later, "when the people had gained self-confidence." Professor T. Leslie Shear has kindly allowed me to see an as yet unpublished paper of his, "Ostracism and the Ostraka from the Agora," which he prepared in 1941. Whereas Carcopino for the second edition of his L'Ostracisme athénien (1935) had 62 examples of the ballots used in Athenian ostracophoria (the balloting), the collection from the Agora now totals 503, and in 1937 a well on the North Slope yielded an additional 191 pieces. There are names of persons who were never ostracized and of many persons who are otherwise unknown. The accuracy of Aristotle's statement that the institution was first used in 487 B.C.
Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XVII, Chapter 117 (search)
riends, who led him by the hand back to his apartments.Justin 12.13.8-9. Arrian. 7.27.2 gives this story of the sudden stab of pain as a variant version, and Plut. Alexander 75.3-4 specifically denies it. Diodorus here explains the "cup of Heracles" mentioned by Plutarch. There was an annual festival of the death of Heracles on Mt. Oeta, with which Medius, as a Thessalian, was familiar. Its date has been unknown (M. P. Nilsson, Geschichte der griechischen Religion, 1, 1941, p. 120), but this anecdote may indicate that it occurred in the Macedonian month of Daesius. His chamberlains put him to bed and attended him closely, but the pain increased and the physicians were summoned. No one was able to do anything helpful and Alexander continued in great discomfort and acute suffering. When he, at length, despaired of life, he took off his ring and handed it to Perdiccas.Curtius 10.5.4; Justin 12.15.12. Curtius's narrative resumes a
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The slave trade. (search)
Prince Alfred arrived at Quebec on Thursday week. The papers report that there was as much enthusiasm displayed as on the occasion of the entry of Prince Albert. The resemblance to the latter in feature is remarkable. He is much shorter in stature, however, than his brother. A majority of East Tennessee Rebellion delegates have appointed a committee to memorialize the Legislature to permit East Tennessee to secede peaceably from the Southern Confederacy. This is founded upon rumor. It is pretended that three fugitive slaves, at Cairo, have been surrendered to their owners in Kentucky. Picayune Butler never pursues that course, but steals all he can lay his hands upon. Hon. Nathaniel Greene Pendeleton, who acted as aid to Gen. Gaines in 1813, and was a Whig member of Congress in 1941-3, died in Cincinnati on the 18th Inst.