Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1907 — An Invincible. [ARTICLE]

An Invincible.

When Alclblades was told that his countrymen bad passed sentence of death upon him for being at the head of a conspiracy to overthrow the religious and political constitution of Athens he said, “I will show them I still live.” He obtained from Sparta assurance of personal safety and went hither. He delighted and charmed the Spartans, as he had the Athenians in his earlier years. He adopted their customs and dress and was the strictest Spartan of them all. He wore his hair short, bathed In the Icy waters of the Eurotes and ate their black broth and barley bread. They believed that he had been misrepresented. In truth, as Plutarch said, “he changed color more quickly than a chameleon.” In Sparta he was grave, temperate and fond of physical exercise; in lonia he was easy going, luxurious and merry; in Thrace he was drunken, in Thessaly he w r as devoted to horsemanship, and in the court of the Persian satraps he surpassed Tissaphernes himself in magnificence. As Sparta was to be the prize of the Athenian victory, he showed the people their danger, advising them to begin active operations against that city. No better advice could have been given them, and they profited by it.