The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volume 2G. Long, 1830 - History, Ancient |
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... taken and burn : by Xerxes , · · Sect . VIII . The Battle of Salamin , & c . -IX . The Battle of Platææ , -X . The Battle near Mycale . The defeat of the Persians , -XI . The Barbarous and Inhuman Revenge of Amestris , the Wife of ...
... taken and burn : by Xerxes , · · Sect . VIII . The Battle of Salamin , & c . -IX . The Battle of Platææ , -X . The Battle near Mycale . The defeat of the Persians , -XI . The Barbarous and Inhuman Revenge of Amestris , the Wife of ...
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... taken up as spies ; and Democedes taking ad- vantage of this arrest , made his escape from them , and fled to Crotona . When the Persian lords had recovered their liberty , they pursued him thither , but could not prevail upon the ...
... taken up as spies ; and Democedes taking ad- vantage of this arrest , made his escape from them , and fled to Crotona . When the Persian lords had recovered their liberty , they pursued him thither , but could not prevail upon the ...
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... taken from Justin . According to this author , the Scythians lived in great innocence and simplicity . They were ignorant indeed of all arts and * Strabo , 1. vii . p . 298 . † Herod . 1. iv . c . 62 . This custom was still practised by ...
... taken from Justin . According to this author , the Scythians lived in great innocence and simplicity . They were ignorant indeed of all arts and * Strabo , 1. vii . p . 298 . † Herod . 1. iv . c . 62 . This custom was still practised by ...
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... taken his resolution . He departed from Susa at the head of an army of seven hundred thousand men ; and his fleet , con- sisting of six hundred sail of ships , was chiefly manned with Ionians , and other Grecian nations , that dwelt ...
... taken his resolution . He departed from Susa at the head of an army of seven hundred thousand men ; and his fleet , con- sisting of six hundred sail of ships , was chiefly manned with Ionians , and other Grecian nations , that dwelt ...
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... taken by the Scythians , was to secure their wives and children by sending them in carriages to the most northern parts of the country ; with them likewise , they sent all their herds and flocks , reserving nothing to themselves but ...
... taken by the Scythians , was to secure their wives and children by sending them in carriages to the most northern parts of the country ; with them likewise , they sent all their herds and flocks , reserving nothing to themselves but ...
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Page 109 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
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Page 85 - Themistocles taking him aside, told him that the design he had conceived, was to burn the fleet belonging to the rest of the Grecian states which then lay in a neighbouring port, when Athens would assuredly become mistress of all Greece.
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Page 317 - Delium, the fear of death should at this time make me abandon that in which the Divine Providence has placed me, by commanding me to pass my life in the study of philosophy, for the instruction of myself and others, this would be a most criminal desertion indeed, and make me highly worthy of being cited before this tribunal as an impious man, who does not believe the gods. " Should you resolve to acquit me ; for the future, I should not hesitate to make answer, Atheaians, I honour and love you; but...
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Page 325 - Soon after which, he breathed his last. Crito went to his body, and closed his mouth and eyes. Such was the end of Socrates, in the first year of the ninety-fifth Olympiad, and the seventieth of his age.
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Page 74 - Megarians, who were encamped upon a plain, suffered extremely by them ; and, in spite of all the vigour and resolution with which they defended themselves, they were upon the point of giving way, when a detachment of 300 Athenians, with some troops...