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... received some limitations from Lykourgos , to whom the Spar- tans attributed the establishment of the Gerousia , or senate of twenty - eight old men ( the whole number of the assembly being thirty , as the kings sat and voted with them ) ...
... received some limitations from Lykourgos , to whom the Spar- tans attributed the establishment of the Gerousia , or senate of twenty - eight old men ( the whole number of the assembly being thirty , as the kings sat and voted with them ) ...
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... received the child from the unsuspecting Labda . But the man who took him from his mother's hands , unnerved by a smile of the babe , handed him on to the next man , and this man to the third , until , when all had in turn taken him ...
... received the child from the unsuspecting Labda . But the man who took him from his mother's hands , unnerved by a smile of the babe , handed him on to the next man , and this man to the third , until , when all had in turn taken him ...
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... receiving from Periandros a request for counsel in the general management of his affairs , gave no verbal answer to his messenger , but going into a cornfield cut off and threw away the tallest and richest of the ears of corn ...
... receiving from Periandros a request for counsel in the general management of his affairs , gave no verbal answer to his messenger , but going into a cornfield cut off and threw away the tallest and richest of the ears of corn ...
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... received an adequate answer . The subject was one which ad- mitted of no doubt , and the system thus gradually raised had the solemn sanction of religion . This system was the mytholo- gical , and it was marked by this special feature ...
... received an adequate answer . The subject was one which ad- mitted of no doubt , and the system thus gradually raised had the solemn sanction of religion . This system was the mytholo- gical , and it was marked by this special feature ...
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... received the flocks and herds on the approach of winter . The exuberance of this teeming soil in wine , oil , and grain veiled the perils . involved in a region of great volcanic activity . This mighty force has in recent ages done much ...
... received the flocks and herds on the approach of winter . The exuberance of this teeming soil in wine , oil , and grain veiled the perils . involved in a region of great volcanic activity . This mighty force has in recent ages done much ...
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