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... Agesilaus . 140 Results of the battle of Cni- dus : loss of the Spartan maritime empire . 157 His character 150 393 . 399. Affairs of Asia Minor 150 Conon restores the long walls of Athens . 157 The Lacedæmonians send Thimbron to assist ...
... Agesilaus . 140 Results of the battle of Cni- dus : loss of the Spartan maritime empire . 157 His character 150 393 . 399. Affairs of Asia Minor 150 Conon restores the long walls of Athens . 157 The Lacedæmonians send Thimbron to assist ...
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... Agesilaus was nominally the head . Since the time of Agamemnon no Grecian king had led an army into Asia ; and Agesilaus studiously availed himself of the prestige of that precedent in order to attract recruits to his stand- ard . The ...
... Agesilaus was nominally the head . Since the time of Agamemnon no Grecian king had led an army into Asia ; and Agesilaus studiously availed himself of the prestige of that precedent in order to attract recruits to his stand- ard . The ...
Page 153
... Agesilaus , as already related . The allies were soon in a condition to take the field with a force of 24,000 hoplites , of whom one fourth were Athenians , together with a considerable body of light troops and cavalry . The Lace ...
... Agesilaus , as already related . The allies were soon in a condition to take the field with a force of 24,000 hoplites , of whom one fourth were Athenians , together with a considerable body of light troops and cavalry . The Lace ...
Page 154
... Agesilaus , who had relinquished with a heavy heart his project- ed expedition into Asia , was now on his homeward march . By the promise of rewards he had persuaded the bravest and most efficient soldiers in his army to accompany him ...
... Agesilaus , who had relinquished with a heavy heart his project- ed expedition into Asia , was now on his homeward march . By the promise of rewards he had persuaded the bravest and most efficient soldiers in his army to accompany him ...
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... Agesilaus was not very decisive ; but the Thebans tacitly acknowledged their defeat by soliciting the customary truce for the burial of their dead . Agesilaus , on his arrival at Sparta , was received with the most lively demonstrations ...
... Agesilaus was not very decisive ; but the Thebans tacitly acknowledged their defeat by soliciting the customary truce for the burial of their dead . Agesilaus , on his arrival at Sparta , was received with the most lively demonstrations ...
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Page 159 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia and the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus should belong to him. He also thinks it just to leave all the other Grecian cities, both small and great, independent — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old.
Page 101 - Oppressed at once by war and pestilence, their lands desolated, their homes filled with mourning, it is not surprising that the Athenians were seized with rage and despair, or that they vented their anger on Pericles, whom they deemed the author of their misfortunes. But that statesman still adhered to his plans with unshaken firmness. Though the Lacedaemonians were in Attica, though the plague had already seized on Athens, he was vigorously pushing his plans of offensive operations.
Page 140 - Pli&do of Plato. With a firm and cheerful countenance he drank the cup of hemlock amidst his sorrowing and weeping friends. His last words were addressed to Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius ;* discharge the debt, and by no means omit it.
Page 34 - Solon was the only man, who, without fear or shrinking, deplored the folly of the times, and reproached the Athenians with their cowardice and treachery. You might, said he, with ease have crushed the tyrant in the bud; but nothing now remains but to pluck him up by the roots.