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... Surrender of Myt- The Athenian demagogue Cle- on . Debates of the Athenian As- sembly respecting the Myti- lenæans Civil dissensions at Corcyra .. 104 Seventh Year . The Athenians take possession of Pylus .... 105 Blockade of Sphacteria ...
... Surrender of Myt- The Athenian demagogue Cle- on . Debates of the Athenian As- sembly respecting the Myti- lenæans Civil dissensions at Corcyra .. 104 Seventh Year . The Athenians take possession of Pylus .... 105 Blockade of Sphacteria ...
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... Surrender of Nicias and De- 116 414. Eighteenth Year . Nicias lays siege to Syracuse 116 mosthenes ... 122 Their death and character ... 122 Total destruction of the Athe- nian armament .. 122 Description of the city . 116 ..... CHAPTER ...
... Surrender of Nicias and De- 116 414. Eighteenth Year . Nicias lays siege to Syracuse 116 mosthenes ... 122 Their death and character ... 122 Total destruction of the Athe- nian armament .. 122 Description of the city . 116 ..... CHAPTER ...
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... Surrender of Dionysius , and conquest of Syracuse .. Timoleon defeats the Cartha- ginians at the Crimesus .... 174 His moderation ... 172 339 . 172 174 353. Assassination of Dion .. ...... 173 366 . His popularity and death 174 356 ...
... Surrender of Dionysius , and conquest of Syracuse .. Timoleon defeats the Cartha- ginians at the Crimesus .... 174 His moderation ... 172 339 . 172 174 353. Assassination of Dion .. ...... 173 366 . His popularity and death 174 356 ...
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... surrender the fleece , she cast the dragon asleep dur- ing the night , seized the fleece , and sailed away in the Argo with her beloved Jason . The Trojan war was the greatest of all the heroic achievements . It formed the subject of ...
... surrender the fleece , she cast the dragon asleep dur- ing the night , seized the fleece , and sailed away in the Argo with her beloved Jason . The Trojan war was the greatest of all the heroic achievements . It formed the subject of ...
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... surrender to Miltiades their days of command , in order to invest the whole power in a single person . While the Athenians were preparing for battle , they received unexpected assistance from the little town of Platea , in Boeotia ...
... surrender to Miltiades their days of command , in order to invest the whole power in a single person . While the Athenians were preparing for battle , they received unexpected assistance from the little town of Platea , in Boeotia ...
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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.