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One of the accusers of Eurycles 1 was unsparing [p. 237] and tiresome with his frank utterances, and went so far as to say, ‘If these things, Caesar,' do not seem to you to be of high importance, order him to repeat for me the seventh 2 book of Thucydides’; and Augustus, much incensed, ordered the man away to prison, but, on learning that he was the sole survivor of Brasidas's descendants, he sent for him, and, after reproving him moderately, ordered that he be released.
1 Presumably the Eurycles who pursued Cleopatra's ship (on board which was the Antony) at Actium; cf. Plutarch. Life of Antony, chap. lxvii. (947 A).
2 The fourth book (which tells of Brasidas), as the books are now numbered, would be in point: but we know that anciently the history of Thucydides was divided into thirteen books (and into nine books) as well as into eight books.
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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