story that the mode of his death was by a draught of bull's
blood at a solemn sacrifice seems derived in some recondite
manner from a traditional rite of his tribe of Lycomidae.
Such a draught was the test of the priestess of Ge (=Gaia-
Themis of the Prometheus Vinctus) at Gaius in ¹ Arcadia,
where it seems implied that death ensued on a false oath.
Compare, however, another Persian instance, but ² compulsory.
With Aristophanes, who alludes to this form of his catastrophe,
'to die like Themistocles' is to imitate the noblest of ³ models.

That even at Magnesia he had not been inactive in his
boasted faculty of making cities prosperous, is intimated by
the magnificent monument raised for him by the citizens in
the midst of the agora, as if to a second founder, and by
the honours which were continued there to his descendants
through long generations.

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