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his own had now consented to his death to save
his country. But personally, although all Corinth
warmly applauded his patriotic act, he was thrown
into the most violent grief and remorse. This was
the greater from the fact that his mother viewed his
deed with horror and execration, invoked curses on
his head, and refused even to see him despite his
earnest supplications.

The gratitude of the city was overcome in his mind
by grief for his brother, and he was attacked by the
bitterest pangs of remorse. The killing of the tyrant
he had felt to be a righteous and necessary act. The
murder of his brother afflicted him with despair. For
a time he refused food, resolving to end his odious
life by starvation. Only the prayersof his friends
made him change this resolution. Then, like one pur-
sued by the furies, he fled from the city, hid himself
in solitude, and kept aloof from the eyes and voices
of men. For several years he thus dwelt in self-
afflicting solitude, and when at length time reduced
his grief and he returned to the city, he shunned all
prominent positions, and lived in humility and retire-
ment. Thus time went on until twenty years had
passed, Timoleon still, in spite of the affection and
sympathy of his fellow-citizens, refusing any office
or place of authority.

But now an event occurred which was to make
this grieving patriot famous through all time, as the
favored of the gods and one of the noblest of men,
—the Washington of the far past. To tell how this
came about we must go back some distance in time.
Corinth, though it played no leading part in the wars

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