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... envoys on being admitted to the presence of Artaphernes were asked who they were and where they lived , and were then told that Dareios would admit them to an alliance on their giving him earth and water . To this demand of absolute ...
... envoys on being admitted to the presence of Artaphernes were asked who they were and where they lived , and were then told that Dareios would admit them to an alliance on their giving him earth and water . To this demand of absolute ...
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... envoy , confessed the wonder which their invitation to Hippias had excited at Corinth , and the still greater astonishment with which they now heard the explanation of a policy , in the guilt of which the Corinthians at least were ...
... envoy , confessed the wonder which their invitation to Hippias had excited at Corinth , and the still greater astonishment with which they now heard the explanation of a policy , in the guilt of which the Corinthians at least were ...
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... envoys return home and tell the Greeks that since they would yield nothing and grasp everything , the spring - time was taken out of their year . ' Such is the tale which Herodotos relates as most gene- rally believed among the ...
... envoys return home and tell the Greeks that since they would yield nothing and grasp everything , the spring - time was taken out of their year . ' Such is the tale which Herodotos relates as most gene- rally believed among the ...
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... envoy was bidden to tell Mardonios that the Athenians would never make peace with Xerxes so long as the sun should keep the same path in the heaven . Then turning to the Spartans they said , ' You know little of the mind of the ...
... envoy was bidden to tell Mardonios that the Athenians would never make peace with Xerxes so long as the sun should keep the same path in the heaven . Then turning to the Spartans they said , ' You know little of the mind of the ...
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... envoy of Mardonios and had then as earnestly besought them to submit to Xerxes as now he prayed them to hold out . In the second picture the Spartan Pausanias is described as requesting to change places with the Athenian forces , on the ...
... envoy of Mardonios and had then as earnestly besought them to submit to Xerxes as now he prayed them to hold out . In the second picture the Spartan Pausanias is described as requesting to change places with the Athenian forces , on the ...
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