The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Volume 6W.W. Woodward, Robert Desilver, Thomas Desilver, McCarty & Davis, and Uriah Hunt, 1825 - History, Ancient |
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... took sanctuary with Polys- perchon , who sent him back to be tried by the people . An assembly was immediately convoked on that occasion , from which neither slaves , foreigners , nor any infamous persons * Diod . 1. xviii . p . 638 ...
... took sanctuary with Polys- perchon , who sent him back to be tried by the people . An assembly was immediately convoked on that occasion , from which neither slaves , foreigners , nor any infamous persons * Diod . 1. xviii . p . 638 ...
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... took the hemlock and died . On that day there was also a public procession , and as it passed before the prison , some of the persons who composed it took their crowns from their heads ; others turned their eyes to the gates of the ...
... took the hemlock and died . On that day there was also a public procession , and as it passed before the prison , some of the persons who composed it took their crowns from their heads ; others turned their eyes to the gates of the ...
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... took care of those descendants , who were poor , and assigned them a daily sum for their subsistence . Such , says Elian , was the government of Demetrius Pha- lereus , till the spirit of envy , so natural to the Athenians , oblig- ed ...
... took care of those descendants , who were poor , and assigned them a daily sum for their subsistence . Such , says Elian , was the government of Demetrius Pha- lereus , till the spirit of envy , so natural to the Athenians , oblig- ed ...
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... took up a great length of time , he left part of his troops before the place , and advanced with the rest into Peloponnesus to force the city of Megara to sur- render . The inhabitants made a long and vigorous defence , which compelled ...
... took up a great length of time , he left part of his troops before the place , and advanced with the rest into Peloponnesus to force the city of Megara to sur- render . The inhabitants made a long and vigorous defence , which compelled ...
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... took up his winter - quarters at Carrhæ in Mesopotamia . * During his continuance in those parts , he sent to Pithon , governor of Media , and Seleucus , governor of Babylon , to press them to join him with their forces against ...
... took up his winter - quarters at Carrhæ in Mesopotamia . * During his continuance in those parts , he sent to Pithon , governor of Media , and Seleucus , governor of Babylon , to press them to join him with their forces against ...
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