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“Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike, if you will; but hear."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Themistocles.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 61ed2e557748ef24dafb47ea8cbe319f8fa0a57012c841721ce4c8c602a11caa
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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