The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagininas, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Volumen3Collins and Company, 1820 |
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... Syracusans resolve to capitulate , but Gylip . pus's arrival changes the face of affairs , & c . Sect . XIV . The Athenians again hazard a sea - fight , and are defeated . Nicias and Demosthenes sentenced to die , and executed 258 270 ...
... Syracusans resolve to capitulate , but Gylip . pus's arrival changes the face of affairs , & c . Sect . XIV . The Athenians again hazard a sea - fight , and are defeated . Nicias and Demosthenes sentenced to die , and executed 258 270 ...
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... Syracusans , who were ordered to come armed into it . However , he himself came unarmed thither : de- clared to the assembly every circumstance of his conduct ; the uses to which he had applied the several sums with a Herodotus says ...
... Syracusans , who were ordered to come armed into it . However , he himself came unarmed thither : de- clared to the assembly every circumstance of his conduct ; the uses to which he had applied the several sums with a Herodotus says ...
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... Syracusans , they erected a statue in honour of him , wherein he was represented in the ordinary habit of a citizen , ungirded , and unarmed . This statue met afterwards with a very singular fate , and worthy of the motives which had ...
... Syracusans , they erected a statue in honour of him , wherein he was represented in the ordinary habit of a citizen , ungirded , and unarmed . This statue met afterwards with a very singular fate , and worthy of the motives which had ...
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... Syracusans unwilling to be at that expense , he told them , that he asked nothing but a loan , and that he would engage to repay it as soon as the war should be over . The money was advanced , and repaid punctually at the promised time ...
... Syracusans unwilling to be at that expense , he told them , that he asked nothing but a loan , and that he would engage to repay it as soon as the war should be over . The money was advanced , and repaid punctually at the promised time ...
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... Syracusans , and the rest Peloponnesians . This induced the inhabitants of those two cities to appoint , after his death , the same solemnities in his honour , as were bestowed on heroes or demi - gods , be- cause they considered him as ...
... Syracusans , and the rest Peloponnesians . This induced the inhabitants of those two cities to appoint , after his death , the same solemnities in his honour , as were bestowed on heroes or demi - gods , be- cause they considered him as ...
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Página 119 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Página 119 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Página 119 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Página 323 - Every thing charms and transports me in this place," said Lysander to Cyrus ; " but what strikes me most is the exquisite taste and elegant industry of the person who drew the plan of these gardens, and gave it the fine order, wonderful disposition, and happiness of arrangement which I cannot sufficiently admire.
Página 201 - ... contravallation. The besiegers, after having pursued them to no purpose, returned to their camp. In the mean time, the...
Página 277 - ... which they would one day have been deprived by the common course of nature ; but then I cannot but be strongly affected with the cruel wound which their death has made in my heart, nor forbear hating and detesting the Athenians, the authors of this unhappy war, as the murderers of my children. But, however...
Página 344 - ... upon him as he passed without losing a man. They were commanded by Episthenes of Amphipolis, who was esteemed an able captain. Tissaphernes kept on without returning to the charge, because he perceived he was too weak, and went forward to Cyrus's camp, where he found the king, who was plundering it; but had not been able to force the quarter defended by the Greeks left to guard it, who saved their baggage.
Página 277 - I see it ready to expose itself to eternal infamy, by the barbarous advice which is now given you. The Athenians indeed merit the worst treatment, and every kind of punishment that can be inflicted on them, for so unjustly declaring war against us ; but have not the gods, the just avengers of crimes, punished them and...
Página 277 - How ! will you suffer your glory to be thus sullied, in the face of the whole world, and have it said, that a nation, who first dedicated a temple in their city to clemency, had not found any in yours ? Surely victories and triumphs do not give immortal glory to a city ! but the exercising of mercy towards a vanquished enemy, the using of moderation in the greatest prosperity, and fearing to offend the gods by a haughty and insolent pride.
Página 182 - ... to quench the raging thirst, which consumed them. Their very temples were filled with dead bodies; and every part of the city exhibited a dreadful image of death, without the least remedy for the present, or the least hopes with regard to futurity.