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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... never any public recommendation of Kleon ( as far as our information goes ) so ruinously impolitic as this alliance with Sparta and surrender of the captives , wherein both Nikias and Alkibiadês concurred . Probably the Spartan Ephors ...
... never any public recommendation of Kleon ( as far as our information goes ) so ruinously impolitic as this alliance with Sparta and surrender of the captives , wherein both Nikias and Alkibiadês concurred . Probably the Spartan Ephors ...
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... never en- joyed since the first blockade of Sphakteria . Yet ance of the it seems that under the present Ephors Sparta was not guilty of any deliberate or positive act which could be called a breach of faith . She quence of the non ...
... never en- joyed since the first blockade of Sphakteria . Yet ance of the it seems that under the present Ephors Sparta was not guilty of any deliberate or positive act which could be called a breach of faith . She quence of the non ...
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... never- theless thought it right , before enrolling themselves -the Man- publicly in the new alliance , to invite a congress of Peloponnesian malcontents to Corinth . It was the Mantineians who made the first application to Argos under ...
... never- theless thought it right , before enrolling themselves -the Man- publicly in the new alliance , to invite a congress of Peloponnesian malcontents to Corinth . It was the Mantineians who made the first application to Argos under ...
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... never contemplated , illustrates the manner in which an oligarchical executive could elude the checks devised to control its proceed- ings . But the Bootarchs , to their astonishment , found themselves defeated at the outset for the ...
... never contemplated , illustrates the manner in which an oligarchical executive could elude the checks devised to control its proceed- ings . But the Bootarchs , to their astonishment , found themselves defeated at the outset for the ...
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... never deserted him throughout his life . His finished beauty of person both as boy , youth , and mature man , caused him to be much run after by women — and even by women of generally reserved habits . Moreover , even before the age ...
... never deserted him throughout his life . His finished beauty of person both as boy , youth , and mature man , caused him to be much run after by women — and even by women of generally reserved habits . Moreover , even before the age ...
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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.