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... resolved to make a fresh attempt to recover their birthright . They were assisted in the enterprise by the Dorians . This people espoused their cause in consequence of the aid which Hercules him- self had rendered to the Dorian king ...
... resolved to make a fresh attempt to recover their birthright . They were assisted in the enterprise by the Dorians . This people espoused their cause in consequence of the aid which Hercules him- self had rendered to the Dorian king ...
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... resolved to with- draw from his native country , and to visit foreign lands . absent many years , and is said to have employed his time in study- ing the institutions of other nations , in order to devise a system of laws and ...
... resolved to with- draw from his native country , and to visit foreign lands . absent many years , and is said to have employed his time in study- ing the institutions of other nations , in order to devise a system of laws and ...
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... resolved to sacrifice himself for the welfare of his country . Accordingly , he went into the invaders ' camp in disguise , provoked a quarrel with one of the Dorian sol- diers , and was killed by the latter . Upon learning the death of ...
... resolved to sacrifice himself for the welfare of his country . Accordingly , he went into the invaders ' camp in disguise , provoked a quarrel with one of the Dorian sol- diers , and was killed by the latter . Upon learning the death of ...
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... resolved to slay the despots at the festival of the Great Pana- thenæa , when all the citizens were required to attend in arms . Having communicated their design to a few associates , the con- spirators appeared armed at the appointed ...
... resolved to slay the despots at the festival of the Great Pana- thenæa , when all the citizens were required to attend in arms . Having communicated their design to a few associates , the con- spirators appeared armed at the appointed ...
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... resolved to introduce an im- portant change in the constitution , and to give to the people an equal share in the government . The reforms of Clisthenes gave birth to the Athenian democracy , which can hardly be said to have existed ...
... resolved to introduce an im- portant change in the constitution , and to give to the people an equal share in the government . The reforms of Clisthenes gave birth to the Athenian democracy , which can hardly be said to have existed ...
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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.