Themistoclean : relating to Themistocles (c.524-460 BC): Athenian politician & naval strategist, creator of Athenian sea-power, & the chief saviour of Greece from subjection to the Persian Empire in 480 BC. When the city-ruler, opposed the plan he suggested, started to hit him, he cried out: “Strike but hear.”
... September 1934 I am sincerely sorry for mistaking you on an important point. But before my argumentative wooden-headedness gives up the ghost under your sledge-hammer it is bursting to cry a Themistoclean "Strike, but hear". Please try to understand my misunderstanding. What you wrote was: "'Treason', of course, is pronounced 'trez'n', but that does not make it a monosyllable in scansion because ...
... himself tried to anticipate all that he could of it. What he would he sorry about is indifference on the part of professional scholars. As his Introduction tells us his appeal is the old Themistoclean cry: "Strike but hear!" Page 457 ...
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