The Laches of Plato: Introduction, Translation and Notes (Classic Reprint)

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He has been accused of vacillation and a want of daring in the conduct of the siege. How little such a charg'ewas really deserved may be gathered from the fact that Thucydides the historian of the sie e of Syracuse describes him as the man who on account 0 the completiicss of his equipment for virtue least merited to meet with misfortune that though the hasty judgxent tedi his name from co memory of those who fell in Sicily, et Demosthenes in the next generation, classed him with; ties and Pericles as one of the great men of Athens, and that Plutarch selects him as one whose biography it was profitable to compose.

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