History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens, Volume 7J. Murray, 1855 - Greece |
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... cause , and advises intervention . 198 Inspecting commissioners despatched by the Athenians to Egesta -frauds practised by the Egestæans to delude them Return of the commissioners to Athens - impression produced by their report ...
... cause , and advises intervention . 198 Inspecting commissioners despatched by the Athenians to Egesta -frauds practised by the Egestæans to delude them Return of the commissioners to Athens - impression produced by their report ...
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... Causes of the defeat of the Athenians 451 ...... 454 ............ .... ib . 455 Feelings of the victors and vanquished after the battle ............... 453 Resolution of Demosthenês and Nikias to make a second attempt -the armament are ...
... Causes of the defeat of the Athenians 451 ...... 454 ............ .... ib . 455 Feelings of the victors and vanquished after the battle ............... 453 Resolution of Demosthenês and Nikias to make a second attempt -the armament are ...
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... cause as to all future com- pact . But this request was steadily refused . The Boeotians maintained their ten days ' armistice ; and the Corinthians were obliged to acquiesce in their existing condition of peace de facto , though not ...
... cause as to all future com- pact . But this request was steadily refused . The Boeotians maintained their ten days ' armistice ; and the Corinthians were obliged to acquiesce in their existing condition of peace de facto , though not ...
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... caused 2000 of the most soldierly Helots to be secretly assassinated , with- is not easy to understand . They might , with much better reason , have declined to conclude the ten days ' armistice with the Baotians — be- cause these latte ...
... caused 2000 of the most soldierly Helots to be secretly assassinated , with- is not easy to understand . They might , with much better reason , have declined to conclude the ten days ' armistice with the Baotians — be- cause these latte ...
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... caused him to be much run after by women — and even by women of generally reserved habits . Moreover , even before the age when such temptations were usually presented , the beauty of his earlier youth , while going through the ordinary ...
... caused him to be much run after by women — and even by women of generally reserved habits . Moreover , even before the age when such temptations were usually presented , the beauty of his earlier youth , while going through the ordinary ...
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¹ Thucyd Agis Alkibiadês alliance allies Amphipolis Andokidês Argeians Argos armament army Arnold arrival assembly Athe Athenian Athenian fleet Athens attack battle blockade Boeotians Chios citizens cliff command Corinth Corinthians counter-wall cusans dæmonians defeat Dekeleia democracy Demosthenês despatched Diodor Dorian Egesta Eleians enemy envoys Ephors Euryâlus Eurymedon expedition farther favour festival force Grecian Greece Greeks ground Gylippus Harbour Hermæ Hermokratês hoplites island Kamarina Katana Kleon Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Lamachus Leontines Lepreum Mantineia ment Messênê month nians Nikias oligarchical party peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesus persons Plutarch position present probably Rhegium sail sect sent ships Sicilian Sicily Sikel Sokratês Sparta Syra Syracusans Syracuse Tegea territory Thucydidês tion town treaty triremes troops truce wall words ἂν αὐτοῖς γὰρ δὲ διὰ εἶναι ἐν ἐς καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 294 - Witnesses of such a character as not to deserve credit in the most trifling cause, upon the most immaterial facts, gave evidence so incredible, or, to speak more properly, so impossible to be true, that it ought not to have been believed if it had come from the mouth of Cato ; and upon such evidence, from such witnesses, were innocent men condemned to death and executed.
Page 479 - Demosthenes, amisso exercitu , a captivitate gladio et voluntaria morte se vindicat : Nicias autem, ne Demosthenis quidem exemplo , ut sibi consuleret , admonitus , cladem suorum auxit dedecore captivitatis.