The History of Ancient Greece: Part the first. From the earliest accounts till the division of the Macedonian empire in the EastT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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Achæans Achæus afterwards Agatho Agathocles Alexander Alexander's Alexandria allies amidst ancient Antigonus Antiochus Appian Aratus arms army Athenæus Athenians Athens battle Berenicé brother camp capital Carthage Carthaginians Cassander CHAP Cleomenes coast colonies commanded Conf conquest Cyrené death defeated defended Demet Demetrius Diodor dominion Egypt Egyptian enemy Epirus Etolians Euergetes expedition father fleet galleys garrison Gauls Grecian Greece Greeks harbour Hermeias honour hundred ibid inhabitants invaders island Italy Justin Keraunus king kingdom Lesser Asia Lysimachus Macedon Macedonian Magna Græcia master ment Messené miles nations neighbouring Olymp Pausanias Philadelphus Plin Plutarch Plutarch in Demet Polyb Polybius prince provinces Ptolemy Ptolemy Philadelphus Ptolemy Soter Ptolemy's Pyrrhus reign Rhodians Romans Rome Samnites Seleucia Seleucus sent Sicily siege Sosibius Soter Strabo successors Syracuse Syria Tarentum temple territory thousand Thrace tion troops Tuscans tyrant usurper victory VIII Volsci
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Página 310 - His first law, that the planets do not move in circles but in ellipses; his second law, that they describe equal spaces in equal times ; his third law, that the squares of their periodic times are proportional to the cubes of their distances. That man gave us the key to the heavens.
Página 212 - RA'MA, if fuch a monarch ever exifted, had civilized ? However that may be, the large breed of Indian Apes is at this moment held in high veneration by the Hindus, and fed with devotion by the...
Página 330 - the word of God of none effect through their traditions (d).
Página 498 - You acted the part of a young man ; that youth of Megalopolis showed himself a great general." Cleomenes, meanwhile, perceiving the total rout of his right wing under Eucleidas, and seeing that his cavalry also was on the point of giving way, became fearful of being surrounded. For retrieving the honour of the day, he determined to quit his intrenchments ; and, at the head of his Spartan spearmen, to attack Antigonus and the phalanx.
Página 161 - And left her debt to Addison unpaid, Blame not her silence, Warwick, but bemoan, And judge, Oh judge, my bosom by your own. What mourner ever felt poetic fires ! Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires : Grief unaffected suits but ill with art, Or flowing numbers with a bleeding heart.
Página 212 - RA'MA'S) bridge. Might not this army of Satyrs have been only a race of mountaineers, whom RA'MA, if fuch a monarch ever exifted, had civilized ? However that may be...
Página 564 - ... to comfort her. But CEnanthe cried out with a loud voice, " Approach -me not, wild beasts as you are; I know you very well; you are enemies to our interests, and are praying the goddesses to inflict upon us the worst of evils: but I hope on the contrary, that they will force yourselves to feed upon your own children." With these words, she ordered her attendants to drive them from her, and even to strike those that should refuse to retire. The women therefore all left the temple; lifting up their...
Página 124 - ... and emeralds ; that man deceives himself, and his imaginations are vain ; let him rather study to conciliate God's favour by doing good to all men ; let him abstain from violation and adultery ; let him not commit theft or murder through the lust of money ; nay, covet not, O Pamphilus, so much even as the thread of another's needle, for God is ever present, and his eye is upon thee.