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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... Diod . Sic . Frag . " ) The oligarchy so long established by this rich and powerful family , was at length overthrown about 629 B. C. by Cypselus , son of Eetion , a Corinthian , whose life was preserved by his mother Labda against the ...
... Diod . Sic . Frag . " ) The oligarchy so long established by this rich and powerful family , was at length overthrown about 629 B. C. by Cypselus , son of Eetion , a Corinthian , whose life was preserved by his mother Labda against the ...
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... ( Diod . Sic . XVI . 544 . Plut . Vit . Timol . Corn . Nep . Vit . Timol . ) Dionysius the younger , on being deprived of his throne , retired to the city which had caused his downfall , where he was received at first with ho- nour and ...
... ( Diod . Sic . XVI . 544 . Plut . Vit . Timol . Corn . Nep . Vit . Timol . ) Dionysius the younger , on being deprived of his throne , retired to the city which had caused his downfall , where he was received at first with ho- nour and ...
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... sent a numerous colony thither , by means of which Corinth was once more raised from its state of ruin . ( Strab . VIII . p . 381. Diod . Sic . Excerpt . 346. ) It Corinthus urbs . Agora . was already a large and C 3 CORINTHIA . 21.
... sent a numerous colony thither , by means of which Corinth was once more raised from its state of ruin . ( Strab . VIII . p . 381. Diod . Sic . Excerpt . 346. ) It Corinthus urbs . Agora . was already a large and C 3 CORINTHIA . 21.
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... Diod . Sic . XIV . 444. ) It was the great emporium of Co- rinthian traffick with the western parts of Greece , as f Chandler , t . II . ch . 57. Clarke's Travels , p . II . s . 2. p . 740 . well as with Italy and Sicily . ( Strab . 26 ...
... Diod . Sic . XIV . 444. ) It was the great emporium of Co- rinthian traffick with the western parts of Greece , as f Chandler , t . II . ch . 57. Clarke's Travels , p . II . s . 2. p . 740 . well as with Italy and Sicily . ( Strab . 26 ...
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... Diod . Sic . XV . 493. ) Cleomenes also threw up trenches and lines from Acrocorinthus to the Oneian moun- tains , in order to prevent the Macedonians , under Antigonus Doson , from penetrating into the penin- sula . ( Polyb . II . 52 ...
... Diod . Sic . XV . 493. ) Cleomenes also threw up trenches and lines from Acrocorinthus to the Oneian moun- tains , in order to prevent the Macedonians , under Antigonus Doson , from penetrating into the penin- sula . ( Polyb . II . 52 ...
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