A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece: With a Map, and a Plan of Athens, Volume 3Clarendon Press, 1828 - Greece |
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... Athens . ( Herod . V. 92. ) In the Persian war , however , owing perhaps to the mean and ungenerous spirit by which their leader Adimantus seems to have been actuated , they do not appear to have displayed that zeal and energy in the ...
... Athens . ( Herod . V. 92. ) In the Persian war , however , owing perhaps to the mean and ungenerous spirit by which their leader Adimantus seems to have been actuated , they do not appear to have displayed that zeal and energy in the ...
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... Athens , ( II . 83. et seq . ) yet in the end , by means of a particular contrivance in the construction of their triremes , they not only stemmed the tide of success which had hitherto invariably attended their ene- mies , but by ...
... Athens , ( II . 83. et seq . ) yet in the end , by means of a particular contrivance in the construction of their triremes , they not only stemmed the tide of success which had hitherto invariably attended their ene- mies , but by ...
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With a Map, and a Plan of Athens John Anthony Cramer. abled to afford effectual aid to the Spartans during their ... Athenians , whom the reverses of fortune had now placed at the mercy of their opponents , joined their influence to that ...
With a Map, and a Plan of Athens John Anthony Cramer. abled to afford effectual aid to the Spartans during their ... Athenians , whom the reverses of fortune had now placed at the mercy of their opponents , joined their influence to that ...
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With a Map, and a Plan of Athens John Anthony Cramer. After these events , however , Corinth , so long un- disturbed ... Athenians , in order to prevent a measure which would detach so important a state from their confe- deracy , incited ...
With a Map, and a Plan of Athens John Anthony Cramer. After these events , however , Corinth , so long un- disturbed ... Athenians , in order to prevent a measure which would detach so important a state from their confe- deracy , incited ...
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With a Map, and a Plan of Athens John Anthony Cramer. lies , alarmed at the success of the Spartans , marched to ... Athenian troops stationed in Co- rinth , succeeded in cutting off a strong detachment of Lacedæmonian infantry and ...
With a Map, and a Plan of Athens John Anthony Cramer. lies , alarmed at the success of the Spartans , marched to ... Athenian troops stationed in Co- rinth , succeeded in cutting off a strong detachment of Lacedæmonian infantry and ...
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