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... Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : its influence Community of manners and char- 11 acter ... Page 14 14 15 15 15 12 Want of political union : independ- 14 ent sovereignty of each city ..... 16 B.C. Page 1104. Conquest of Peloponnesus by 3 ...
... Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : its influence Community of manners and char- 11 acter ... Page 14 14 15 15 15 12 Want of political union : independ- 14 ent sovereignty of each city ..... 16 B.C. Page 1104. Conquest of Peloponnesus by 3 ...
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... oracle of Am- 325 . Arrival at Susa .. 199 mon ... 192 Intermarriages between the 331. He crosses the Euphrates 192 193 Battle of Gaugamela or Arbela 193 Flight of Darius . Alexander takes possession of Babylon . Macedonians and ...
... oracle of Am- 325 . Arrival at Susa .. 199 mon ... 192 Intermarriages between the 331. He crosses the Euphrates 192 193 Battle of Gaugamela or Arbela 193 Flight of Darius . Alexander takes possession of Babylon . Macedonians and ...
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... oracle of Apollo . South of Phocis is Baotia , which is a large hollow basin , inclosed on every side by mountains , which prevent the waters from flowing into the sea . Hence the atmosphere was damp and thick , to which circum- stance ...
... oracle of Apollo . South of Phocis is Baotia , which is a large hollow basin , inclosed on every side by mountains , which prevent the waters from flowing into the sea . Hence the atmosphere was damp and thick , to which circum- stance ...
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... oracle of Apollo at Delphi surpassed all the rest in importance , and was regarded with veneration in every part of the Grecian world . In the centre of the temple of Delphi there was a small opening in the ground from which it was said ...
... oracle of Apollo at Delphi surpassed all the rest in importance , and was regarded with veneration in every part of the Grecian world . In the centre of the temple of Delphi there was a small opening in the ground from which it was said ...
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... oracle not to enter Peloponnesus by the Isthmus of Corinth , but across the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf . The inhab itants of the northern coast of the gulf were favourable to their en- terprise . Oxylus , king of the Ætolians , became ...
... oracle not to enter Peloponnesus by the Isthmus of Corinth , but across the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf . The inhab itants of the northern coast of the gulf were favourable to their en- terprise . Oxylus , king of the Ætolians , became ...
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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.