Xenophon, Memorabilia, Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator), 2.6.13

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[13]
No, but I have heard that Pericles knew many and put them on the city, and so made her love him.
And how did Themistocles make the city love him?
Not by spells: no, no; but by hanging some good amulet about her.¹

Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.

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Memorabilia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.)

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Ἀπομνημονεύματα Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 2. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 2.6.13 focus

[13] οὐκ ἀλλʼ ἤκουσα μὲν ὅτι Περικλῆς πολλὰς ἐπίσταιτο, ἃς ἐπᾴδων τῇ πόλει ἐποίει αὐτὴν φιλεῖν αὑτόν. Θεμιστοκλῆς δὲ πῶς ἐποίησε τὴν πόλιν φιλεῖν αὑτόν; μὰ Δίʼ οὐκ ἐπᾴδων, ἀλλὰ περιάψας τι ἀγαθὸν αὐτῇ.

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1. i.e., not by his words, but by protecting Athens with ships and fortifications.

Xenophon Memorabilia 2.6.13

Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator)

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