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his money, and who got it too; for he gave to thosc who could work him harm no less than to those who deserved his favours, and in general his cowardice was a source of revenue to the base, as his liberality was to the good. Witness to this can be had from the comic poets. Telecleides composed the following verses ona certain public informer :— “So then Charicles gave a mina that he might not tell of him How he was his mother’s first-born,—and her purse- born child at that. Minas four he got from Nicias, son of rich Niceratus ; But the reason why he gave them, though I know it very well, I'll not tell; the man’s my friend, and I think him wise and true.” And the personage who is held up to ridicule by Eupolis, in his “ Maricas,” fetches in a sort of lazy pauper, and says :— (Maricas) “ How long a time now since you were with Nicias ?” (Pauper) “I have not seen him,—saving just now on the Square.” (Maricas) “The man admits he actually did see Nicias ! Yet what possessed him thus to see him if he was not treacherous?”