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... satrap of Sardis , had for some unknown cause conceived a deadly hatred against the Samian despot . By a cunning stratagem the satrap allured him to the main land , where he was immediately arrested and hanged upon a cross ( B. c . 522 ) ...
... satrap of Sardis , had for some unknown cause conceived a deadly hatred against the Samian despot . By a cunning stratagem the satrap allured him to the main land , where he was immediately arrested and hanged upon a cross ( B. c . 522 ) ...
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... satrap of western Asia , by holding out to him the prospect of annexing not only Naxos , but all the islands of the Ægean Sea , to the Persian empire . He offered at the same time to defray the expense of the armament . Artaphernes ...
... satrap of western Asia , by holding out to him the prospect of annexing not only Naxos , but all the islands of the Ægean Sea , to the Persian empire . He offered at the same time to defray the expense of the armament . Artaphernes ...
Page 51
... satrap in western Asia , and he placed under his command a large arma- ment , with injunctions to bring to Susa those Athenians and Ere- trians who had insulted the authority of the Great King . Mar- donius , after crossing the ...
... satrap in western Asia , and he placed under his command a large arma- ment , with injunctions to bring to Susa those Athenians and Ere- trians who had insulted the authority of the Great King . Mar- donius , after crossing the ...
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... satrap at Sardis , observed with dismay that none of the messengers employed in this service had ever returned . Moved by these fears , he broke the seal and read the letter , and finding his suspicions of the fate that awaited him ...
... satrap at Sardis , observed with dismay that none of the messengers employed in this service had ever returned . Moved by these fears , he broke the seal and read the letter , and finding his suspicions of the fate that awaited him ...
Page 123
... satraps and the court of Susa bestirred themselves against her . The first blow to her em- pire was struck by the wealthy and populous island of Chios . This again was the work of Alcibiades , the implacable enemy of his native land ...
... satraps and the court of Susa bestirred themselves against her . The first blow to her em- pire was struck by the wealthy and populous island of Chios . This again was the work of Alcibiades , the implacable enemy of his native land ...
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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.