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Some he readily persuaded to this course, and others, fearing his power, which was already great, and his boldness, chose to be persuaded rather than forced to agree to it.

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He visited them and tried to win them over to his project township by township and clan by clan. The common folk and the poor quickly answered to his summons; to the power­ful he promised government without a king and a democracy, in which he should only be commander in war and guardian of the laws, while in all else everyone should be on an equal footing.

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Theseus conceived a wonder­ful design, and settled all the residents of Attica in one city, thus making one people of one city out of those who up to that time had been scattered about and were not easily called together for the common interests of all.

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He picked out two young men of his acquaintance who had fresh and girlish faces, but eager and manly spirits, and changed their outward appearance by giving them warm baths and keeping them out of the sun, by arranging their hair, and by smoothing their skin and beautifying their complexions with unguents; he also taught them to imitate maidens in their speech, their dress, and their gait, and to leave no difference that could be observed.

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And verily it seems to be a grievous thing for a man to be at enmity with a city which has a language and a literature.

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And so in Epidauria, when Periphetes, who used a club as his weapon and on this account was called Club-bearer, laid hold of him and tried to stop his progress, he grappled with him and slew him. And being pleased with the club, he took it and made it his weapon and continued to use it, just as Heracles did with the lion's skin. And so Theseus carried the club to show that although it had been vanquished by him, in his own hands it was invincible.

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He thought it a dreadful and unendurable thing that his famous cousin should go out against the wicked everywhere and purge land and sea of them, while he himself ran away from the struggles which lay in his path, disgra­cing his reputed father​ by journeying like a fugitive over the sea, and bringing to his real father as proofs of his birth only sandals and a sword unstained with blood.

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And as for reverence and righteousness, justice and humanity, they thought that most men praised these qualities for lack of courage to do wrong and for fear of being wronged, and considered them no concern of men who were strong enough to get the upper hand.

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For verily that age produced men who, in work of hand and speed of foot and vigour of body, were extraordinary and indefatigable, but they applied their powers to nothing that was fitting or useful. Nay rather, they exulted in monstrous insolence, and reaped from their strength a harvest of cruelty and bitterness, mastering and forcing and destroying everything that came in their path.

"The ship on which Theseus sailed with the youths and returned in safety, the thirty-oared galley, was preserved by the Athenians down to the time of Demetrius Phalereus. They took away the old timbers from time to time, and put new and sound ones in their places, so that the vessel became a standing illustration for the philosophers in the mooted question of growth, some declaring that it remained the same, others that it was not the same vessel. " #philosophy #plato #ShipOfTheseus #theseus https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=plut.+thes.+23.1

@heiseonline Das wird genauso ein Rohrkrepierer wie damals das #Theseus-Projekt. Was eben immer dabei herauskommt, wenn Politiker meinen, strukturelle Versäumnisse von Jahrzehnten ließen sich beseitigen, indem man einfach ein paar hundert Millionen danach wirft und großes Medien-Tamtam darum macht. Das klappt beim Thema Cloud so wenig wie beim Thema Suchmaschinen. Beide Themen hat die #CDU in ihrer kompetenzbefreiten Bräsigkeit episch wegignoriert. Wie eigenich so ziemlich alle wichtigen Zukunftsthemen der letzten 40 Jahre. Es ist so ärgerlich.