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Achæans Agesila'us Alcibi'ades Alexander allies ancient Antipater Aristom'enes army Asia Asiatic assembly assistance Athenians Athens attack Attica battle became Boeotia Cassander cause cavalry celebrated character citizens civil colonies command conduct consequence Corinth countrymen courage Darius death declared defeated defence Delphic oracle Demos'thenes dominions enemy engagement Epaminon'das expedition favour fleet forces formed former galleys garrison Grecian Greece Greeks Hellenic honour hundred inhabitants invaders invasion island king Lacedæmo'nians land laws liberty Lycurgus Lysan'der Macedon Macedonian Messe'nians monarch nation Ni'cias nians oracle orator peace Pelop'idas Peloponnesian Peloponnesian war Peloponnesus Per'icles Persian Persian war Philip Phocion poets possession prince principal Questions for Examination remarkable resolved retreat revolt Romans satraps seized sent ships siege slain soldiers soon Spartans subdued success Syracu'sans temple Thebans Thebes Themis'tocles Thessaly thirty tyrants thousand Thrace tion took tribes trierarch Trojan war troops tyrant valour victory Xerx'es
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Page 327 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 42 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 121 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations;— all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 179 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 278 - crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth...
Page 188 - ... great a victory, and strengthened by the revolt of the allies, would come and invade Athens, both by sea and land, with all the forces of Peloponnesus. Cicero had reason to observe, speaking of the battles in the harbour of Syracuse, that it was there the troops of Athens, as well as their galleys, were ruined and sunk ; and that, in this harbour, the power and glory of the Athenians were miserably shipwrecked. The Athenians, however, did not suffer themselves to be wholly dejected, but resumed...
Page 143 - It is even asserted that he did not leave money enough behind him to defray the expense of his funeral, but that the government was obliged to bear the charge of it, and to maintain his family. His daughters were...
Page 167 - Alcibiades, with great apparent courtesy, demanded of them, With what powers they were come ? They made answer that they were not come as plenipotentiaries.
Page 155 - No skill could obviate, nor remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized, he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting a cure. The humanity of friends was fatal to themselves, as it was ineffectual to the unhappy sufferers.
Page 168 - Athenians, that even success would profit the enemy but little, should they be conquerors, whereas if they were defeated, Sparta itself was hardly safe.