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 When king Alexander was angry with the people of Lampsacus, this man got round him by the following trick. The people of Lampsacus were pro-Persian; Alexander was furiously angry, and threatened to do them massive harm. They, trying to save their women, their children and their homeland, sent **Anaximenes** to intercede. Alexander knew why he had come, and swore by the gods that he would do the opposite of what he asked; so **Anaximenes** said, 'Please do this for me, your majesty: enslave the women and children of Lampsacus, burn their temples, and raze the city to the ground.' Alexander had no way round this clever trick, and because he was bound by his oath he reluctantly pardoned the people of Lampsacus. **Anaximenes** also retaliated against Theopompus, son of Damostratus, in an ingenious though malicious way. Since he was a sophist and could imitate the style of the sophists, he wrote a book addressed to the Athenians and Spartans, a defamatory treatise, exactly imitating him. He attached Theopompus' name to it, and sent it to the cities. As a result, hostility to Theopompus was increased throughout Greece. Moreover, no one before **Anaximenes** had invented improvised speeches.
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+Source: "Anaximenes." Suda On Line. Tr. Malcolm Heath. 27 January 2000. 2 March 2014. <http://www.stoa.org/sol-entries/alpha/1989>.</blockquote>
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