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it. Aristides was named. He tol'd him, that the Lacedomonian fleet which was in the part of Gytheus, might be privily burnt: & said that by this means the strength of the Lacedamonians would be broken, with whom the Athenians contended for [[deletion]] it being [[/deletion]] the chief [[deletion]] state on [[/deletion]] [[addition]] command of [[/addition]] Grece. Which when Aristides heard he returnd to the assembly which was in suspence, & said: the council which Themistocles gives seems to be usefull: but not honest. The Atheniens, judged, what was not honest could not be usefull. And by [[deletion]] honest, to be useless [[/deletion]] the advice of Aristides they rejected the proposal & would not so much as give [[addition]] in [[/addition]] a hearing/ Where will ^ [[addition]] you [[/addition]] now find that love of honour even in a single person which then possessed a whole people.