PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



110 XXX. Platoni sapientiae antistiti Dionysius tyran- 

 nus alias saevitiae superbiaeque natus vittatam navem 

 misit obviam, ipse quadrigis albis egredientem in 

 litore excepit. viginti talentis unani orationem 

 Isocrates vendidit. Aeschines Atheniensis summus 

 orator, cum accusationem qua fuerat usus Rliodiis 

 legisset, legit et defensionem Demosthenis qua in 

 illud depulsus fuerat exihum, mirantibusque tum 

 magis fuisse miraturos dixit si ipsum orantem audi- 

 vissent, calamitate testis ingens factus iuimici. 



111 Thucydiden imperatorem Atheniertses in exilium 

 egere, rerum conditorem revocavere, eloquentiam 

 mirati cuius virtutem damnaverant. magnum et 

 Menandro in comico socco testimonium regum 

 Aegypti et Macedoniae contigit classe et per legatos 

 petito, maius ex ipso regiae fortunae praelata litte- 

 rarum conscientia. 



112 Perhibuere et Romani proceres etiam exteris testi- 

 monia. Cn. Pompeius confecto Mithridatico bello 

 intraturus Posidonii sapientiae professione clari 

 domum forem percuti de more a Uctore vetuit, et 

 fasces Htterarum ianuae summisit is cui se oriens 

 occidensque summiserat. Cato censorius in illa 



" The younger Dionysius of Syracuse was visited by Plato 

 soon after his accession in 367 n.c. and again a few years 

 later. 



* In Ctesiphonlem. 



' De corona. 



^ In 424 n.c. Thucydides was in command of an Athenian 

 flect that unavoidahly arrived too lato to save Amphipolis 

 from capture by the Spartan Brasidas. He avoided impeach- 

 ment by going into exile. He seema to have retumed to 



