Chronological Tables of Greek History: Accompanied by a Short Narrative of Events, with References to the Sources of Information and Extracts from the Ancient Authorities |
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according to Diod Agesilaus Alexander Alkibiades alliance allies amongst Antigonus Apollod Archons Argos Arist Aristoph army ART AND LITERATURE Athenians Athens B. C. ATHENS battle Bergk Boeotia Chron circ colonies Corinth Corinthians Curt Dareius death defeated Demetrius Demosthenes Diod Diodorus Diog Dion Dorians Ephor Eschin Euboea expedition fleet Greece Greek Hell Hellenes Herod HISTORY Isocr Justin Kassander king Kleomenes Macedonia Megara Messenians Miletus Olympiad Paus Pausanias peace Peloponnese Peloponnesian Perikles Persian Phil Philip Phokians Plat Plin Plut poems poet Samos Schol ships Sicily Sikyon Sokrates Spartans Strab Suid Syracuse Thebans Thebes Thessaly Thrakian Thuc towns tyrant VIII whilst γὰρ δὲ δὲ καὶ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ καὶ τὰ κατὰ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ Περὶ πρὸς τὰς τε καὶ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ ὡς
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Page 15 - etiam Homerum caecum fuisse; at eius picturam, non poësiu 5 videmus. Quae regio, quae ora, qui locus Graeciae, quae species formaque pugnae, quae acies, quod remigium, qui motus hominum, qui fer arum non ita expictus est, ut, quae ipse non viderit, nos ut videremus, effecerit?
Page 54 - Nec vero ille artifex, cum faceret lovis formam aut Minervae, contemplabatur aliquem, e quo similitudinem duceret, sed ipsius in mente insidebat species pulchritudinis eximia quaedam, quam intuens in eaque defixus ad illius similitudinem artem et manum dirigebat.
Page 54 - Athens, the reliefs of the metopes of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, and of the frieze of the temple of Apollo...
Page 67 - We know neither the year of his birth nor of his death, and of the circumstances of his life little more than is disclosed by the production of hie comedies.
Page 115 - Protogenis opus 5 inmensi laboris ac curae supra modum anxiae miraretur, dixit enim omnia sibi cum illo paria esse aut illi meliora, sed uno se praestare, quod...
Page 54 - Polyclito supra ceteros, cui quamquam a plerisque tribuitur palma, tarnen, ne nihil detrahatur, déesse pondus putant. Nam ut humanae formae decorem addiderit supra verum!, ita non explevisse deorum auctoritatem videtur.
Page 108 - The present expedition was undertaken in the summer of 342 в. с. : this is proved by the fact, that at the time when the speech of Demosthenes on the Chersonese was delivered, Philip had been ten months in Thrake, id.
Page 53 - Et historiae, quae currere debet ac ferri, minus convenissent insistentes clausulae et debita actionibus respiratio et cludendi inchoandique sententias ratio. In contionibus quidem etiam similiter cadentia quaedam et contraposita deprehendas. In Herodoto vero cum omnia, ut ego quidem sentio, leniter fluunt, turn ipsa dialectos habet earn iucunditatem ut latentes etiam5 nu19 meros complexa videatur.
Page 42 - The fighting force of the Greeks consisted, in addition to the 300 Spartans, of 500 Tegeatans, 500 Mantineans, 120 men from Orchomenus in Arcadia, 1000 from the rest of Arcadia, 400 Corinthians, 200 from Phlius, 80 from Mykenœ : further 700 from Thespiœ, 400 from Thebes (who according to Herod. VII. 222 joined the army under compulsion, according to Diod. XI. 4 belonged to a non-Medising party), the whole force of Opuntian Lokrians, and 1000 Phokians, id. 202. Xerxes first sends a spy, who finds...
Page 38 - Egyptians (see id.), amounted to 600, id. 9. The lonians, restricting the war on land to the defence of Miletus, collected their fleet at Lade, an island lying in the neighbourhood of Miletus, intending to venture an engagement with the enemy, id. 7. Their fleet consisted of 80 ships from Miletus, 12 from Priene, 3 from Myus, 17 from Teos, 100 from Chios, 8 from Erythrœ, 3 from Phokœa, 70 from Lesbos, 60 from Samos, altogether 353, id.