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... Blockade of Sphacteria .. Cleon appointed general . Capture of Sphacteria .. 106 107 100 108 Advantages of the victory . 108 101 424 . 102 Eighth Year . Defeat of the Athenians at the battle of Delium .. 108 102 103 Overthrow of the ...
... Blockade of Sphacteria .. Cleon appointed general . Capture of Sphacteria .. 106 107 100 108 Advantages of the victory . 108 101 424 . 102 Eighth Year . Defeat of the Athenians at the battle of Delium .. 108 102 103 Overthrow of the ...
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... blockades the town . The Athenians send a large fleet Battle of Arginusæ : defeat and death of Callicratidas ... 131 404 . Accusation and condemnation of the Athenian generals ... 132 131 pointment of Lysander as admiral .. Page 132 The ...
... blockades the town . The Athenians send a large fleet Battle of Arginusæ : defeat and death of Callicratidas ... 131 404 . Accusation and condemnation of the Athenian generals ... 132 131 pointment of Lysander as admiral .. Page 132 The ...
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... blockade Sestos , the key of the strait . This city sur- rendered in the autumn , after a protracted siege , whereupon the Athenians returned home , carrying with them the cables of the bridge across the Hellespont , which were ...
... blockade Sestos , the key of the strait . This city sur- rendered in the autumn , after a protracted siege , whereupon the Athenians returned home , carrying with them the cables of the bridge across the Hellespont , which were ...
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... blockade the Thasians secretly applied to the Lacedæmonians to make a diversion in their favour by invading Attica ; and though the Lacedæmonians were still ostensibly allied with Athens , they were base enough to comply with this ...
... blockade the Thasians secretly applied to the Lacedæmonians to make a diversion in their favour by invading Attica ; and though the Lacedæmonians were still ostensibly allied with Athens , they were base enough to comply with this ...
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... blockade , and reduce the city by famine . The Platæans endured a blockade of two years , during which the Athe- nians attempted nothing for their relief . In the second year , how- ever , about half the garrison effected their escape ...
... blockade , and reduce the city by famine . The Platæans endured a blockade of two years , during which the Athe- nians attempted nothing for their relief . In the second year , how- ever , about half the garrison effected their escape ...
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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.