A Smaller History of Greece, from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest |
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Page 34 - with ease have crushed the tyrant in the bud ; but nothing now remains but to pluck him up by the roots." But no one responded to his appeal. He refused to fly ; and when his friends asked him on what he relied for protection, " On my old age,
Page 157 - 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 221 - Seven cities laid claim to his birth, $ and most of them had legends to tell respecting his romantic parentage, his alleged blindness, and his life of an itinerant bard acquainted with poverty and sorrow. It cannot be disputed that he was an Asiatic Greek ; but this is the only fact in his life which can be regarded as certain. Several of the best writers of antiquity supposed him to...
Page 160 - Cadmea, when the Lacedaemonians capitulated, and were allowed to march out with the honours of war. But several of the Theban citizens of the Lacedaemonian party, who had taken refuge in the citadel, were put to death, and in some cases even their children shared their fate.
Page 99 - 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.