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... enemy into their camp , and utterly defeated them . The historian adds some scandals of the Court at Susa ; but the interest of his narrative culminates with the events of the two memorable years in which , by the victories last ...
... enemy into their camp , and utterly defeated them . The historian adds some scandals of the Court at Susa ; but the interest of his narrative culminates with the events of the two memorable years in which , by the victories last ...
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... enemies crowd on all sail , And there is now no haven from despair ; ' but she kneels to the king , and obtains his consent to delay her departure till the morrow . Then she confides to the Chorus her intention that ' The Father , and ...
... enemies crowd on all sail , And there is now no haven from despair ; ' but she kneels to the king , and obtains his consent to delay her departure till the morrow . Then she confides to the Chorus her intention that ' The Father , and ...
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... enemies , until at last he recovered his senses , and was seized with terrible remorse . She opens the tent , and he is seen brooding over the slaughtered carcases . He begs the Chorus to kill him , and welcomes the thought of death ...
... enemies , until at last he recovered his senses , and was seized with terrible remorse . She opens the tent , and he is seen brooding over the slaughtered carcases . He begs the Chorus to kill him , and welcomes the thought of death ...
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... enemy is still alive , and that many of his friends are dead , for ' War never , with good will , Doth choose the evil man , or leave the good . ' Neoptolemus now feigns anxiety to return to his ship , and continue his voyage homewards ...
... enemy is still alive , and that many of his friends are dead , for ' War never , with good will , Doth choose the evil man , or leave the good . ' Neoptolemus now feigns anxiety to return to his ship , and continue his voyage homewards ...
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... enemy had poisoned the wells . It is supposed , however , to have been a virulent eruptive fever , originating in Ethiopia , and brought to the Piræus from the Archipelago by a trading ship . Thucydides tells us that he was attacked by ...
... enemy had poisoned the wells . It is supposed , however , to have been a virulent eruptive fever , originating in Ethiopia , and brought to the Piræus from the Archipelago by a trading ship . Thucydides tells us that he was attacked by ...
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