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... whilst Ulysses , king of Ith- aca , surpassed all the rest in the mental qualities of counsel and eloquence . Among the Trojans , Hector , one of the sons of Priam , was most distinguished for heroic qualities , and formed a striking ...
... whilst Ulysses , king of Ith- aca , surpassed all the rest in the mental qualities of counsel and eloquence . Among the Trojans , Hector , one of the sons of Priam , was most distinguished for heroic qualities , and formed a striking ...
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... whilst they strained every nerve to secure themselves by fortifying the isthmus of Corinth . The Athenians , relying upon the march of the Peloponnesian army into Bocotia , had taken no measures for the security of their families and ...
... whilst they strained every nerve to secure themselves by fortifying the isthmus of Corinth . The Athenians , relying upon the march of the Peloponnesian army into Bocotia , had taken no measures for the security of their families and ...
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... whilst the fleet itself was ordered to make for Asia . These dispositions of Xerxes were prompted by Mardonius . He repre- sented to his master that the defeat , after all , was but slight ; that , having attained one of the great ...
... whilst the fleet itself was ordered to make for Asia . These dispositions of Xerxes were prompted by Mardonius . He repre- sented to his master that the defeat , after all , was but slight ; that , having attained one of the great ...
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... whilst to the Lacedæmonians they pro- tested that no temptations , however great , should ever induce them to desert the common cause of Greece and freedom . In return for this disinterested conduct , all they asked was that a Pelopon ...
... whilst to the Lacedæmonians they pro- tested that no temptations , however great , should ever induce them to desert the common cause of Greece and freedom . In return for this disinterested conduct , all they asked was that a Pelopon ...
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... whilst an army of 60,000 Persians lined the coast for their defence . The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Platea was fought . A supernatural pre- sentiment of that decisive victory , conveyed by a herald's staff ...
... whilst an army of 60,000 Persians lined the coast for their defence . The Greeks landed on the very day on which the battle of Platea was fought . A supernatural pre- sentiment of that decisive victory , conveyed by a herald's staff ...
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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.