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... ready hewn to their hand . Not only were there stories which belonged to particular families , clans , or cities ; but around these flowed the stream of a tradition which professed to furnish a continuous history in the tales of the ...
... ready hewn to their hand . Not only were there stories which belonged to particular families , clans , or cities ; but around these flowed the stream of a tradition which professed to furnish a continuous history in the tales of the ...
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... ready cooked meats . But before they could cross the zone of burning sand which lay between them and those luxurious feasts , the failure even of grass for food drove them to decimate themselves ; and this outbreak of cannibalism warned ...
... ready cooked meats . But before they could cross the zone of burning sand which lay between them and those luxurious feasts , the failure even of grass for food drove them to decimate themselves ; and this outbreak of cannibalism warned ...
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... ready . The trick succeeded . Polykrates sailed from Samos , taking with him a physician named Demokedes , the son of Kalliphon of Kroton . But he reached Magnesia , the historian adds , only to perish with an end befitting neither ...
... ready . The trick succeeded . Polykrates sailed from Samos , taking with him a physician named Demokedes , the son of Kalliphon of Kroton . But he reached Magnesia , the historian adds , only to perish with an end befitting neither ...
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... ready to go against the Scythians . ' Nay , ' replied Atossa , in words which to the Athenians who heard or read the narrative of the great historian conveyed an exquisite irony , ' go not against the Scythians first . I have heard of ...
... ready to go against the Scythians . ' Nay , ' replied Atossa , in words which to the Athenians who heard or read the narrative of the great historian conveyed an exquisite irony , ' go not against the Scythians first . I have heard of ...
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... ready grows more indistinct , when we see that his career is almost more legendary than that of his master . When from the story of Demokedes we turn to the second tale , that , namely , of the Scythian expedition , the residuum of fact ...
... ready grows more indistinct , when we see that his career is almost more legendary than that of his master . When from the story of Demokedes we turn to the second tale , that , namely , of the Scythian expedition , the residuum of fact ...
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