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... Epaminondas ... 163 Spartan invasion of Bootia ... 163 Progress of the Theban arms . 164 Jealousy of Athens 160 160 161 162 162 16-1 Battle of Corones .. 154 371 . Return of Agesilaus to Sparta . 157 Peace of Callias : the Thebans ...
... Epaminondas ... 163 Spartan invasion of Bootia ... 163 Progress of the Theban arms . 164 Jealousy of Athens 160 160 161 162 162 16-1 Battle of Corones .. 154 371 . Return of Agesilaus to Sparta . 157 Peace of Callias : the Thebans ...
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... Epaminondas , in the year 369 B.C. Dur- ing the whole of the intervening period the Messenians disappear from history . The country called Messenia in the map became a portion of Laconia , which thus extended across the south of Pelo ...
... Epaminondas , in the year 369 B.C. Dur- ing the whole of the intervening period the Messenians disappear from history . The country called Messenia in the map became a portion of Laconia , which thus extended across the south of Pelo ...
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... Epaminondas protected his body at the imminent risk of his own life . Pelopidas afterwards endeav- oured to persuade Epaminondas to share his riches with him ; and when he did not succeed , he resolved to live on the same frugal fare as ...
... Epaminondas protected his body at the imminent risk of his own life . Pelopidas afterwards endeav- oured to persuade Epaminondas to share his riches with him ; and when he did not succeed , he resolved to live on the same frugal fare as ...
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... Epaminondas , then one of the polemarchs . The terms of a peace were agreed upon , by which the independ- ence of the various Grecian cities was to be recognized ; and the Spartan harmosts and garrisons everywhere dismissed . Sparta ...
... Epaminondas , then one of the polemarchs . The terms of a peace were agreed upon , by which the independ- ence of the various Grecian cities was to be recognized ; and the Spartan harmosts and garrisons everywhere dismissed . Sparta ...
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... Epaminondas , however , compensated any in- feriority of numbers by novelty of tactics . Up to this time Grecian battles had been uniformly conducted by a general attack in line . Epaminondas now first adopted the manœuvre , used with ...
... Epaminondas , however , compensated any in- feriority of numbers by novelty of tactics . Up to this time Grecian battles had been uniformly conducted by a general attack in line . Epaminondas now first adopted the manœuvre , used with ...
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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.