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... resolve to suppress the OLYNTHIAN CON- 371 309 312 369 313 Thebes FEDERACY . . Seizure of the Kadmeia by the Spartan Phoibidas . Execution of Ismenias . Conspiracy of Pelopidas . Surrender of the Spartan garrison in the Kadmeia . . The ...
... resolve to suppress the OLYNTHIAN CON- 371 309 312 369 313 Thebes FEDERACY . . Seizure of the Kadmeia by the Spartan Phoibidas . Execution of Ismenias . Conspiracy of Pelopidas . Surrender of the Spartan garrison in the Kadmeia . . The ...
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... resolved that they would not be partakers . The Spartan in this debate differed from the Corinthian only in the clearness with which he saw that there was that in Athenian democracy which , if not repressed , must prove fatal 46 BK . I ...
... resolved that they would not be partakers . The Spartan in this debate differed from the Corinthian only in the clearness with which he saw that there was that in Athenian democracy which , if not repressed , must prove fatal 46 BK . I ...
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... resolved that there shall be a second and a more serious fulfilment ; and he drives Cyrus into the rebellion which ends in the dethronement of the despot . To achieve this end Cyrus , according to the notion of a historian who is ...
... resolved that there shall be a second and a more serious fulfilment ; and he drives Cyrus into the rebellion which ends in the dethronement of the despot . To achieve this end Cyrus , according to the notion of a historian who is ...
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... resolved to do as she now desired him , and that he was making 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 ...
... resolved to do as she now desired him , and that he was making 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 ...
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... resolved to ascertain how far he might rely on the submission of the Greeks to the extension of the Persian empire . Heralds were accordingly sent throughout all Hellas , demanding in the king's name the tribute of a little earth and a ...
... resolved to ascertain how far he might rely on the submission of the Greeks to the extension of the Persian empire . Heralds were accordingly sent throughout all Hellas , demanding in the king's name the tribute of a little earth and a ...
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