Periander

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Periander

Greek tyrant of Corinth about 625–585 BC. Under his reign, and that of his father Cypselus, Corinthian wealth and influence greatly expanded. He conquered Epidaurus and annexed Corcyra (Corfu). He was a patron of men of letters and was one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

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I believe that Periander or Perdiccas or Xerxes or Ismenias the Theban, or some other rich and mighty man, who had a great opinion of his own power, was the first to say that justice is `doing good to your friends and harm to your enemies.

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At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus.

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