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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... remarkable man as taking a prominent part in public life . He was now about thirty - one or thirty- two years old , which in Greece was considered an early age for a man to exercise important com- mand . But such was the splendour ...
... remarkable man as taking a prominent part in public life . He was now about thirty - one or thirty- two years old , which in Greece was considered an early age for a man to exercise important com- mand . But such was the splendour ...
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... , ἐσήκουόν τε καὶ ἑτοῖμοι ἦσαν εὐθὺς παραγαγεῖν τοὺς ̓Αργείους , & c . Compare Plutarch , Alkib . c . 14 ; and Plutarch , Nikias , c . 10 . tainly have been done , if a remarkable phænome- non 64 [ PART II . HISTORY OF GREECE .
... , ἐσήκουόν τε καὶ ἑτοῖμοι ἦσαν εὐθὺς παραγαγεῖν τοὺς ̓Αργείους , & c . Compare Plutarch , Alkib . c . 14 ; and Plutarch , Nikias , c . 10 . tainly have been done , if a remarkable phænome- non 64 [ PART II . HISTORY OF GREECE .
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... remarkable phænome- non - an earthquake — had not occurred to prevent it ; causing the assembly to be adjourned to the next day , pursuant to a religious scruple then re- cognised as paramount . This remarkable anecdote comes in all its ...
... remarkable phænome- non - an earthquake — had not occurred to prevent it ; causing the assembly to be adjourned to the next day , pursuant to a religious scruple then re- cognised as paramount . This remarkable anecdote comes in all its ...
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... remarkable proof , after the overpowering defeat of the preceding day , how strong was the hold which he still retained upon them , and how sincere their desire to keep on Mantineia . the best terms with Sparta . This was a last chance ...
... remarkable proof , after the overpowering defeat of the preceding day , how strong was the hold which he still retained upon them , and how sincere their desire to keep on Mantineia . the best terms with Sparta . This was a last chance ...
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... surpassing generally every other city in Greece , see a remarkable testimony in Xenophon , Memorabil . iii . 3 , 12 . celebrate his triumph , together with the banquet itself , CHAP . LV . ] 73 PRODIGIOUS DISPLAY OF ALKIBIADES .
... surpassing generally every other city in Greece , see a remarkable testimony in Xenophon , Memorabil . iii . 3 , 12 . celebrate his triumph , together with the banquet itself , CHAP . LV . ] 73 PRODIGIOUS DISPLAY OF ALKIBIADES .
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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.