The History of Greece: From the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great, Volume 2Rivington [and others], 1812 - Greece |
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Page 371
... Agesilaus , who had carried on the war in Persia with success , received news of the war being again broke out in Greece , with orders , at the same time , for him to return home . He had set his heart upon the entire conquest of Persia ...
... Agesilaus , who had carried on the war in Persia with success , received news of the war being again broke out in Greece , with orders , at the same time , for him to return home . He had set his heart upon the entire conquest of Persia ...
Page 372
... Agesilaus , on the other hand , obtained a considerable victory over the Athenians and their allies upon the plains of Coronea . Thus was the war continued . by furious but undecisive engagements , in which neither side was a gainer ...
... Agesilaus , on the other hand , obtained a considerable victory over the Athenians and their allies upon the plains of Coronea . Thus was the war continued . by furious but undecisive engagements , in which neither side was a gainer ...
Page 377
... Agesilaus was pitched upon to command the army , that was to humble the Grecian states . His name struck a terror into the Thebans ; and his forces , which amounted to near twenty thousand men , increased their fears . The The- bans ...
... Agesilaus was pitched upon to command the army , that was to humble the Grecian states . His name struck a terror into the Thebans ; and his forces , which amounted to near twenty thousand men , increased their fears . The The- bans ...
Page 386
... Agesilaus , was at the head of the al- lies , who formed the left wing . Epaminondas , who resolved to charge with his left , which he commanded in person , strength- ened it with the choice of his heavy - armed 386 HISTORY OF GREECE .
... Agesilaus , was at the head of the al- lies , who formed the left wing . Epaminondas , who resolved to charge with his left , which he commanded in person , strength- ened it with the choice of his heavy - armed 386 HISTORY OF GREECE .
Page 390
... Under this difficulty they gave Agesilaus a power even over the laws , to dispense with them , to abrogate them , or to enact such new ones as the present exigency required . He would not abo- lish , 390 HISTORY OF GREECE .
... Under this difficulty they gave Agesilaus a power even over the laws , to dispense with them , to abrogate them , or to enact such new ones as the present exigency required . He would not abo- lish , 390 HISTORY OF GREECE .
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affairs Agesilaus Alcibiades ardour Aristagoras Aristides arms arrived arts Athe Athenians Athens attack battle began besieged body carried Cimon citizens command conduct courage Cyrus danger death declared defeat defended Demaratus Demosthenes eloquence endeavoured enemy enemy's engagement Epaminondas Ephori expedition favour fight fleet forces former fought friends galleys gave give glory gods greatest Grecian Greece Greeks Gylippus Hellespont Hippias honour hopes horse hundred inhabitants Ionians island killed king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land laws liberty Lycurgus Lysander manner Mardonius masters mean ment Miltiades nians Nicias obliged occasion oppose passed Pausanias peace Pelopidas Pericles Persian Pisistratus possessed prisoners resolved rest retire retreat sail seemed seized sent shew ships side siege slaves Socrates soldiers Solon soon Spartans success Syracusans Syracuse Thebans Thebes Themistocles thence thought thousand tion Tissaphernes took troops tyrants utmost valour victory walls whole army Xenophon Xerxes
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Page 279 - Several of them even owed the good usage they met with to Euripides, the finest scenes of whose tragedies they repeated to the Sicilians, who were extremely fond of them ; so that when they returned to their own country, they went and saluted that poet as their deliverer, and informed him of the admirable effects wrought in their favour by his verses. The news of the defeat being carried to Athens...
Page 347 - He had no open school like the rest of the philosophers, nor set times for his lessons. He had no benches prepared, nor ever mounted a professor's chair. He was the philosopher of all times and seasons. He taught in all places, and upon all occasions ; in walking, conversation, at meals, in the army, and in the midst of the camp, in the public assemblies of the senate or people, in prison itself, and when he drank the poison, he philosophized, says Plutarch, and instructed mankind.
Page 352 - ... standing forth to demand vengeance against the corrupter of their sons, brothers, and nephews. But these are the persons who take upon them my defence, and interest themselves in the success of my cause. Pass on me what sentence you please, Athenians; but I can neither repent nor change my conduct.
Page 352 - Amphipolis,andDelium, 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...
Page 321 - Abrocomas, his enemy, at twelve days march from thence upon the Euphrates. When this answer was repeated to them, though they plainly saw against whom they were going, they resolved to proceed, and only demanded an augmentation...
Page 275 - ... had shown against Syracuse, and the evils they would have made it suffer had they been victorious ; the afflictions and groans of infinite numbers of Syracusans who bewailed the death of their children and near relations, whose manes could be appeased no other way than by the blood of their murderers. On these representations the people returned to their sanguinary resolution, and followed Diodes
Page 97 - Miltiades, however, declared for the contrary opinion, and shewed that the only means to exalt the courage of their own troops, and to strike a terror into those of the enemy, was to advance boldly towards them with an air of confidence and desperate intrepidity.
Page 275 - You, doubtless, have not forgotten that this Nicias, whose fate you are going to pronounce, was the very man who pleaded your cause in the assembly of the Athenians, and employed all his credit and the whole power of his eloquence to dissuade his country from embarking in this war. Should you, therefore, pronounce sentence of death...
Page 353 - Melitus has taken so much pains to ridicule. That spirit has attached itself to me from my infancy : it is a voice which I never hear but when it would prevent me from persisting...
Page 32 - Lacedaemonians was war : everything with them tended that way : arms were their only exercise and employment : their life was much less hard and austere in the camp than in the city...