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... river Isther for that purpose . The Ionians were appointed to guard this im- portant pass ; but were advised by Miltiades , whom we shall af- terwards find performing nobler exploits , to break down the bridge , and thus cut off the ...
... river Isther for that purpose . The Ionians were appointed to guard this im- portant pass ; but were advised by Miltiades , whom we shall af- terwards find performing nobler exploits , to break down the bridge , and thus cut off the ...
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... river Halys , and came to Calene , a city of Phrygia , near the source of the river Meander . He was there met by Pythias , a Lydian prince , who , by the most extreme parsimony and op- pression , had become , next to Xerxes , the most ...
... river Halys , and came to Calene , a city of Phrygia , near the source of the river Meander . He was there met by Pythias , a Lydian prince , who , by the most extreme parsimony and op- pression , had become , next to Xerxes , the most ...
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... rivers in their march . " Alas ! great prince , " cried Demaratus , " Greece , from the beginning of time , has been trained up and accustomed to poverty ; but the defects of that are amply recom- pensed by virtue , which wisdom ...
... rivers in their march . " Alas ! great prince , " cried Demaratus , " Greece , from the beginning of time , has been trained up and accustomed to poverty ; but the defects of that are amply recom- pensed by virtue , which wisdom ...
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... river Peneus . But Alexander , the son of Amyntas , representing that post as untenable , they were obliged to change their measures ; and at last resolved to send a body of men to guard the pass at Thermopyla , where a few were capable ...
... river Peneus . But Alexander , the son of Amyntas , representing that post as untenable , they were obliged to change their measures ; and at last resolved to send a body of men to guard the pass at Thermopyla , where a few were capable ...
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... river Asopos , along the banks of which his army ex- tended , consisting of three hundred thousand fighting men . 16. Great as this army was , the Greeks , with much inferior forces , resolved to meet it in the field . Their forces were ...
... river Asopos , along the banks of which his army ex- tended , consisting of three hundred thousand fighting men . 16. Great as this army was , the Greeks , with much inferior forces , resolved to meet it in the field . Their forces were ...
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