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He was hostile to Themistocles, 1 and once, when he was sent as ambassador in his company, he said, ‘ Are you willing, Themistocles, that we should leave our hostility behind us at the boundaries ? And then, if it be agreeable, we will take it up again on our return.’ 2
1 Herodotus, viii. 79; Plutarch's Life of Aristeides, chap. viii. (323 C).
2 Cf. Moralia 809 B; Polyaenus, Strategemata, i. 31; and the following (from a newspaper in 1929): ‘Paying a tribute to Senator Robinson, the Democratic member of the conference delegation, Senator Reed said: 'I can say for him that when his ship sails from New York he quits being a Democrat, just as I quit becoming a Republican, leaving politics behind us at the American shore.'’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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