And yet he suffered worthy fate for men of old;However, the facts which have been ascertained about this case have been stated more at length elsewhere.1
A fate unworthy though of him and of his brands.
For such as he the ostrakon was ne'er devised.
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For no worthless or disreputable fellow had ever before fallen under this condemnation of ostracism. As Plato, the comic poet, has somewhere said, in speaking of Hyperbolus,
1 Cf. Plut. Nic. 11
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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