Dryads are Greek mythological creatures that live near trees. They are a particular species of nymph. Dryads are born bonded to a specific tree. If they lived in the tree, they were referred to as hamadryads; otherwise they were simply dryads. If the tree died, the dryad associated with it died as well. For that reason, dryads and the gods punished any mortals who harmed trees.
induced the Corcyreans to deny the shelter he sought, but they
discovered--his pursuers pressed upon him. He had entered the country
everything to dread. For he had persuaded the Athenians to reject the
only could have conceived, and which presents to us one of the most
Admetus himself. The prince was absent. He addressed his consort,
hand, and sat down at the hearth.html">hearth--"THEMISTOCLES THE SUPPLIANT!" [163]
his vengeance on an exile. "To condemn me now," he said, "would be to
upon equal terms. True that I opposed you once, but on a matter not
persecutors, and you deprive me of the last refuge of life itself."
IX. Admetus, much affected, bade him rise, and assured him of
sought his hearth, after a form peculiarly solemn among the
guarded, to the sea.html">sea-town of Pydna, over an arduous and difficult
unknown to all the passengers, in a trading vessel.html">vessel.html">vessel.html">vessel bound to Ionia. A
towards the Athenian fleet, that then under Cimon, his bitterest foe,
of the vessel--discovered himself; threatened, if betrayed, to inform
preserved, everlasting gratitude; and urged that the preservation was
to quit the vessel.
The master of the vessel was won--kept out at sea a day and a night to
Athens. On the supposed discovery of his treason, such of his
in such offences, confiscated to the public use; the amount was
greater part of his wealth--some from Athens, some from Argos--was
procured the escape of his wife and children from Athens to the court
Stesimbrotus (whose statement even the credulous Plutarch questions,
author), has recorded that he was condemned to death by Cimon. It is
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