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... Defeated by Themistocles Fortification of Piræus .. Farther proceedings against the Persians Misconduct of Pausanias . The maritime supremacy trans- ferred to the Athenians Confederacy of Delos .. The combined fleet under Ci- mon .. 471 ...
... Defeated by Themistocles Fortification of Piræus .. Farther proceedings against the Persians Misconduct of Pausanias . The maritime supremacy trans- ferred to the Athenians Confederacy of Delos .. The combined fleet under Ci- mon .. 471 ...
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... defeated at Cynos- Alcibiades intrusts the fleet to 127 130 army refuses to recognize the new government . Alcibiades joins the democracy at Samos , and is elected one of the Athenian generals ... 126 Overthrow of the Four Hund- red ...
... defeated at Cynos- Alcibiades intrusts the fleet to 127 130 army refuses to recognize the new government . Alcibiades joins the democracy at Samos , and is elected one of the Athenian generals ... 126 Overthrow of the Four Hund- red ...
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... defeated by the Romans at the battle of Thermopyla 210 Subjugation of Sparta by the Achæans .. 210 213 189 . 279. Invasion of the Celts , and death of Ptolemy Ceraunus ... The Celts attack Delphi .. 278. Antigonus Gonatas ascends the ...
... defeated by the Romans at the battle of Thermopyla 210 Subjugation of Sparta by the Achæans .. 210 213 189 . 279. Invasion of the Celts , and death of Ptolemy Ceraunus ... The Celts attack Delphi .. 278. Antigonus Gonatas ascends the ...
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... defeated with great loss . In the third year of the war another great battle was fought , in which the Mes- senians suffered a signal defeat . So great was their loss , that Ar- istomenes no longer ventured to meet the Spartans in the ...
... defeated with great loss . In the third year of the war another great battle was fought , in which the Mes- senians suffered a signal defeat . So great was their loss , that Ar- istomenes no longer ventured to meet the Spartans in the ...
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... , king of Sparta , defeated the Thessalian allies of Hippias ; and the tyrant , unable to meet his enemies in the field , took refuge in the Acropolis . Here he might have B.C. 514. ASSASSINATION OF HIPPARCHUS . 35 Fourteenth Year.
... , king of Sparta , defeated the Thessalian allies of Hippias ; and the tyrant , unable to meet his enemies in the field , took refuge in the Acropolis . Here he might have B.C. 514. ASSASSINATION OF HIPPARCHUS . 35 Fourteenth Year.
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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.