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:—
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.
- Thy tomb is mounded in a fair and sightly place;
- The merchantmen shall ever hail it with glad cry;
- It shall behold those outward, and those inwardbound,
- And all the emulous rivalry of racing ships.