cum saluberrimo consilio Themistocles migrare Athenienses in classem coegisset, Xerxeque rege et copiis eius Graecia pulsis ruinas patriae in pristinum habitum reformaret et opes clandestinis molitionibus ad principatum Graeciae capessendum nutriret, in contione dixit habere se rem deliberatione sua provisam, quam si Fortuna ad effectum perduci passa esset, nihil maius aut potentius Atheniensi populo futurum, sed eam vulgari non oportere, postulavitque ut aliquis sibi cui illam tacite exponeret daretur.
By his salutary advice Themistocles had made the Athenians migrate into their fleet. Now that king Xerxes and his forces had been driven from Greece, he was reshaping the ruins of his country into its former state and nourishing its power by secret machinations with a view to taking over the leadership of Greece. He said in the assembly that he had devised a plan whereby, if Fortune allowed it to go into effect, nothing would be greater or more powerful than the Athenian people, but it should not be made public; he therefore asked to be given someone to whom he could explain it in secret.
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