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... exiles seize Phylé ... 137 Enmity against him 139 137 His impeachment , trial , and death . 140 141 142 144 CHAPTER XV . THE EXPEDITION OF THE GREEKS UNDER CYRUS , AND RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND , B.C. 401-400 . 101 Causes of the ...
... exiles seize Phylé ... 137 Enmity against him 139 137 His impeachment , trial , and death . 140 141 142 144 CHAPTER XV . THE EXPEDITION OF THE GREEKS UNDER CYRUS , AND RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND , B.C. 401-400 . 101 Causes of the ...
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... exile of De- mosthenes cas . 206 His invasion of Egypt and death ... 207 Fresh division of the provinces at Triparadisus .. 207 323. Insurrection of the Grecian states .. Antipater declared regent .. 207 203 318. His death . 207 Defeat ...
... exile of De- mosthenes cas . 206 His invasion of Egypt and death ... 207 Fresh division of the provinces at Triparadisus .. 207 323. Insurrection of the Grecian states .. Antipater declared regent .. 207 203 318. His death . 207 Defeat ...
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... exile . But the Shore and the Plain having quarrel- led , Pisistratus was recalled and again became master of Athens . Another revolution shortly afterwards drove him into exile a sec- ond time , and he remained abroad ten years . At ...
... exile . But the Shore and the Plain having quarrel- led , Pisistratus was recalled and again became master of Athens . Another revolution shortly afterwards drove him into exile a sec- ond time , and he remained abroad ten years . At ...
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... exile ever since the third and final restoration of Pisistratus to Athens , now began to form schemes to expel the tyrant . Clisthenes , the son of Megacles , who was the head of the family , secured the Delphian oracle by pecuniary ...
... exile ever since the third and final restoration of Pisistratus to Athens , now began to form schemes to expel the tyrant . Clisthenes , the son of Megacles , who was the head of the family , secured the Delphian oracle by pecuniary ...
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... exiled king took refuge at the Persian court . The unexpected retreat of the Peloponnesian army delivered the Athenians from their most formidable enemy , and they lost no time in turning their arms against their other foes . Marching ...
... exiled king took refuge at the Persian court . The unexpected retreat of the Peloponnesian army delivered the Athenians from their most formidable enemy , and they lost no time in turning their arms against their other foes . Marching ...
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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.