Themistocles

Plutarch

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. II. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.

And he thinks that the comic poet Plato is a witness in favour of his view when he says:—

  1. Thy tomb is mounded in a fair and sightly place;
  2. The merchantmen shall ever hail it with glad cry;
  3. It shall behold those outward, and those inwardbound,
  4. And all the emulous rivalry of racing ships.
For the lineal descendants of Themistocles there were also certain dignities maintained in Magnesia down to my time, and the revenues of these were enjoyed by a Themistocles of Athens who was my intimate and friend in the school of Ammonius the philosopher.