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... March to Byzantium ... 148 Their treaty with Tissaphernes 146 399. The Greeks are incorporated Their retreat to the Greater with the army of Thimbron . 148 Zab 146 B.C. CHAPTER XVI . THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA , B. xiv CONTENTS .
... March to Byzantium ... 148 Their treaty with Tissaphernes 146 399. The Greeks are incorporated Their retreat to the Greater with the army of Thimbron . 148 Zab 146 B.C. CHAPTER XVI . THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA , B. xiv CONTENTS .
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... Tissaphernes 152 Death of Tissaphernes , who is 379 . succeeded by Tithraustes 152 334. Agesilaus recalled home .. 152 Pelopidas .. Intrigues of Tithraustes in Greece .. 152 War between Sparta and Thebes 152 The Athenians join the The ...
... Tissaphernes 152 Death of Tissaphernes , who is 379 . succeeded by Tithraustes 152 334. Agesilaus recalled home .. 152 Pelopidas .. Intrigues of Tithraustes in Greece .. 152 War between Sparta and Thebes 152 The Athenians join the The ...
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... Tissaphernes , the Persian satrap , through the intrigues of Alcibiades . In the course of a few months Alcibiades had completely forfeited the confidence of the Lacedæmonians . The Spartan king Agis , whose wife he had se- duced , was ...
... Tissaphernes , the Persian satrap , through the intrigues of Alcibiades . In the course of a few months Alcibiades had completely forfeited the confidence of the Lacedæmonians . The Spartan king Agis , whose wife he had se- duced , was ...
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... Tissaphernes . Upon their arrival in Ionia they informed Alcibiades that meas , ures had been taken for establishing an oligarchical form of gov ernment at Athens , and required him to fulfil his part of the en- gagement by procuring ...
... Tissaphernes . Upon their arrival in Ionia they informed Alcibiades that meas , ures had been taken for establishing an oligarchical form of gov ernment at Athens , and required him to fulfil his part of the en- gagement by procuring ...
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... Tissaphernes , he once more succeeded in deceiving the Athenians . The accom- plished traitor was elected one of the generals , and , in pursuance of his artful policy , began to pass backwards and forwards between Samos and Magnesia ...
... Tissaphernes , he once more succeeded in deceiving the Athenians . The accom- plished traitor was elected one of the generals , and , in pursuance of his artful policy , began to pass backwards and forwards between Samos and Magnesia ...
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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.