Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 5 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"Plutarch
Philosophy
Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 5 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"
Plutarch
Classical literature; Essays; Ethics; Philosophy
sight, and it was not he but the battle of Chaeronea that made that
decree. But Philip, being affrighted at somewhat, gave leave to carry
away their dead out of the field, which before he had denied to the
heralds from Lebadea.
After this, at the overthrow at Crannon, being demanded by Antipater,
and the people being resolved to deliver him up, he fled out of the
city with others who were under the same condemnation to Aegina;
where meeting with Demosthenes, he excused himself for the breach
of friendship between them. Going from thence, he was apprehended by
Archias, surnamed Phygadotheres, by country a Thurian, formerly a
player, but at that time in the service of Antipater; by this man, I
say, he was apprehended, even in the very temple of Neptune, though
he grasped the image of that God in his arms. He was brought before
Antipater, who was then at Corinth; where being put upon the rack, he
bit out his tongue, because he would not divulge the secrets of his
country, and so died, on the ninth day of October. Hermippus tells us
that, as he went into Macedonia, his tongue was cut out and his body
cast forth unburied; but Alphinous his cousin-german (or, according to
the opinion of others, his grandson, by his son Glaucippus) obtained
leave, by means of one Philopithes a physician, to take up his body,
which he burnt, and carried the ashes to Athens to his kinsfolk there,
contrary to the edicts both of the Athenians and Macedonians, which not
only banished them, but likewise forbade the burial of them anywhere
in their own country. Others say, that he was carried to Cleonae with
others, and there died, having his tongue cut out, as above; however,
his relations and friends took his bones, when his body was burned, and
buried them among his ancestors before the gate Hippades, as Heliodorus
gives us the relation in his Third Book of Monuments. His monument is
now altogether unknown and lost, being thrown down with age and long
standing.
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