... notes that the Peloponnesian war began "in the forty-eighth year of the priesthood of Chrysis, in the ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, and in the last month but two of the archonship of Pythodorus in Athens". ..., and a new priestess, Phaeinis, was installed. The fact that Chrysis is named alongside archons and ephors, that she is forced to flee for fear of what the Argives will do to her, that ...

... good hope. Q.: What is hard? CHILON: To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury. CHILON'S BROTHER: Why am I not, like you, made an ephor? CHILON: I know how to submit to injustice and you do not. CHILON: What is Zeus doing? AESOP: He is humbling the proud and exalting the humble. --------------------------- 3 Thales of Miletus Maxims "Of ...