Note 970 — Chapter VII · Corinth
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Plut. de Ei ap. Delph. 3 (Moral. 385); Dio Chrys. XXXVII. 456M (103 R); Plato, Ep. 2. The unfriendly Nic. Dam. F.H.G. III. p. 393, quotes this view, but adds τὸ δὲ οὐκ ἦν; cp. Plato, Rep. I. 336; Protag. 343a. Appian (bell. Mithr. 28) does not mention Periander, but accepts his claim: “of the seven sages so called all who engaged in active life ruled and tyrannized more savagely than the normal tyrant (ὠμότερον τῶν ἰδιωτικῶν τυράννων).”