Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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When Demetrius was besieging the Rhodians
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he seized in one of the suburbs a painting of the
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artist Protogenes in which he portrayed Ialysus. The Rhodians sent a herald to him and besought him to spare the painting. He replied that he would sooner destroy the statues and portraits of his father than that painting.
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And coming to terms with the Rhodians, he left his great siege-engine, the Citytaker,
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with them to serve as a token of his prowess and of their courage.
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The Athenians revolted, and when he had taken their city, which was already in serious straits from lack of food, an assembly of the people was immediof grain.
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In speaking about this before them he lapsed into a barbarism. One of those sitting there repeated the phrase as it should have been spoken, and he said,
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For this correction, then, I give you eight thousand bushels more.