Book 8
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Moreover, from his abundant means he bestowed dowries upon many of the maidens of the city who had no dowry. No doubt it was the same means that enabled him to don a purple robe and over it a golden girdle, as Favorinus relates in his Memorabilia, and again slippers of bronze and a Delphic laurel-wreath. He had thick hair, and a train of boy attendants. He himself was always grave, and kept this gravity of demeanour unshaken. In such sort would he appear in public; when the citizens met him, they recognized in this demeanour the stamp, as it were, of royalty. But afterwards, as he was going in a carriage to Messene to attend some festival, he fell and broke his thigh; this brought an illness which caused his death at the age of seventy-seven. Moreover, his tomb is in Megara.
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As to his age, Aristotle’s account is different, for he makes him to have been sixty when he died; while others make him one hundred and nine. He flourished in the 84th Olympiad.444-441 b.c. Demetrius of Troezen in his pamphlet Against the Sophists said of him, adapting the words of HomerOd. xi. 278.: He tied a noose that hung aloft from a tall cornel-tree and thrust his neck into it, and his soul went down to Hades.
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In the short letter of Telauges which was mentioned aboveviii. 35. it is stated that by reason of his age he slipped into the sea and was drowned. Thus and thus much of his death.
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There is an epigram of my own on him in my Pammetros in a satirical vein, as followsAnth. Pal. vii. 123.:
