Note 1 — Chapter II · TELESIPPE.

“You are a strategus,”1 replied Anaxagoras, “you are the administrator of the public revenues, the superintendent of the public buildings, the director of the public festivals—the gods alone know the names of the offices and dignities, conferring ordinary and extraordinary powers, with which the Athenians are constantly loading you. No matter, you are—what is the important, and in a free state the principal thing—you are the great orator, whom they call the ‘Olympian,’ because a sort of sovereignty is allied with the thunder of your words, as with the thunder of Zeus. And you are anxious?”