Pennas, resigno quæ; dedit ...
... probamque
Pauperiem sine dote quæro.’
Horatius: Od., iii. 29.
‘I sing her praises should she stay,
But an she shake her lightsome wings,
I give her back the things she gave,
And seek an upright life in poverty.’
It was early in the afternoon of September the twenty-fifth by our reckoning when the Eros, following the Salaminia, got up to Thurii, an Athenian colony near the site of the old-renowned soft Sybaris. The fallen strategos landed with his friends. Kryptos, approaching, told the ex-general he proposed staying there that night, and starting again early next morning. Alkibiades bowed, saying it was his part to receive orders now, not to give them.
The people of Thurii, most of whom had come upon the wharf to see the two great Athenian vessels, were indeed surprised when they recognised the well-known face of Alkibiades. He had lately called there, when, at the head of his division of the fleet, he was on his way to Rhegion. Eumanthes quickly heard the news, and came down at once to welcome his friend and benefactor, and invited him and his companions to his country house, and begged they would make it theirs as long as they might stay at Thurii.