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... retired within the walls of their city . In those early times men were unskilled in the art of reducing fortified places , and the Greeks knew of no speedier way of taking Troy than block ading it till the inhabitants should be ...
... retired within the walls of their city . In those early times men were unskilled in the art of reducing fortified places , and the Greeks knew of no speedier way of taking Troy than block ading it till the inhabitants should be ...
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... retire but 300 , with whom he proposed to give the Persians some idea of what the Greeks could submit to for the sake of their country . He and his 300 were cut off to a man . Xerxes took possession of Attica and Athens , but in the ...
... retire but 300 , with whom he proposed to give the Persians some idea of what the Greeks could submit to for the sake of their country . He and his 300 were cut off to a man . Xerxes took possession of Attica and Athens , but in the ...
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... retire with as much of their other property as they could take with them , within the walls of Athens . By this provident care , the city was stored with provision sufficient for the support of the multi- tudes which now crowded it ...
... retire with as much of their other property as they could take with them , within the walls of Athens . By this provident care , the city was stored with provision sufficient for the support of the multi- tudes which now crowded it ...
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... retired by the western coast , continuing the work of devastation as he went along . Early in the summer of the following year , the confederates returned to Attica , which they were again permitted to ravage at their pleasure , as ...
... retired by the western coast , continuing the work of devastation as he went along . Early in the summer of the following year , the confederates returned to Attica , which they were again permitted to ravage at their pleasure , as ...
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... retired after an expedition against the revolted cities of Asia Minor . When intelligence arrived of the revolution in Athens , and the tyrannical proceedings of the oligarchical faction , the soldiers indignant- ly refused to obey the ...
... retired after an expedition against the revolted cities of Asia Minor . When intelligence arrived of the revolution in Athens , and the tyrannical proceedings of the oligarchical faction , the soldiers indignant- ly refused to obey the ...
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