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... friend had dealt with the ears of corn , and the mildness of his previous rule was followed by a savage and merciless oppression . Whatever the father had spared now fell by the hand of his bloodthirsty son , who in one day stripped of ...
... friend had dealt with the ears of corn , and the mildness of his previous rule was followed by a savage and merciless oppression . Whatever the father had spared now fell by the hand of his bloodthirsty son , who in one day stripped of ...
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... friend Harmodios hoped to overthrow their despotism . These men with a few partisans determined to await the greater Panathenaic festival , being sure that on seeing the blow struck the main body of the citizens would hasten to join ...
... friend Harmodios hoped to overthrow their despotism . These men with a few partisans determined to await the greater Panathenaic festival , being sure that on seeing the blow struck the main body of the citizens would hasten to join ...
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... friend the Spartan king Kleomenes , who availed himself of the old religious terrors inspired by the curse pronounced on the Alkmaionidai for the death of Kylon or his adherents more than a hundred years before . This terror was still ...
... friend the Spartan king Kleomenes , who availed himself of the old religious terrors inspired by the curse pronounced on the Alkmaionidai for the death of Kylon or his adherents more than a hundred years before . This terror was still ...
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... friends . Still more pleased with this fancied assurance that he should throw down the kingdom of Cyrus , Kroisos besought the god for the third time , if his empire should last long . The priestess answered : ' When a mule shall be ...
... friends . Still more pleased with this fancied assurance that he should throw down the kingdom of Cyrus , Kroisos besought the god for the third time , if his empire should last long . The priestess answered : ' When a mule shall be ...
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... friends and bade them come at once to his aid . Thus fourteen days passed away , and then Cyrus promised to reward richly the man who should first climb the walls . But the men tried in vain , until a Mardian named Hyroiades found the ...
... friends and bade them come at once to his aid . Thus fourteen days passed away , and then Cyrus promised to reward richly the man who should first climb the walls . But the men tried in vain , until a Mardian named Hyroiades found the ...
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