Piget Themistoclis adulescentiam attingere, sive patrem aspiciam abdicationis iniungentem notam, sive matrem suspendio finire vitam propter filii turpitudinem coactam, cum omnium postea Graii sanguinis virorum clarissimus exstiterit, mediumque Europae et Asiae vel spei vel desperationis pignus fuerit: haec enim eum salutis suae patronum habuit, illa vadem victoriae adsumpsit.
It irks me to touch upon the youth of Themistocles, whether I look at his father, who put upon him the stigma of repudiation, or his mother, who was driven to hang herself because of her sons infamy; although later he turned out the most famous of all the Grecian race and stood between Europe and Asia as the pledge of either hope or despair. For Europe had him as her lifes protector, Asia took him as her guarantor of victory.
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