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Acropolis Aegina Agesilaus Alcibiades Alexander alliance allies Argos Aristeides army Asia Athenians Athens attack Attica Babylon battle began Boeotia Brasidas called carried chariot Cimon citizens command conquest Corinth Croesus Cyrus Darius death defeated Delian League Delphi Demosthenes enemy enemy's Epaminondas Euboea exile expedition fell fight fleet force fresh gave gods Greece Greek cities Greeks Gylippus hands harbour Hellenes Hellespont honour hope invaders invasion Ionian island isthmus king King's knew land League Lysander Macedonia Mardonius Megara Messenians Nicias once oracle party pass Pausanias peace Peiraeus Peisistratus Peloponnesians Peloponnesus Pericles Persian Philip Plataea Pylos quarrel ready rest revolt round sacred sailed Salamis Sardis satrap sent ships Sicily side siege soldiers Sparta surrender Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Thermopylae Thessaly Thrace Tissaphernes took town triremes troops truce turned tyrant victory walls Xerxes Zeus
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Page 107 - For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country : and they shall set themselves in array against her ; from thence she shall be taken : their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man ; none shall return in vain.
Page 173 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they, and where art thou, My country?
Page 310 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia and the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus should belong to him. He also thinks it just to leave all the other Grecian cities, both small and great, independent, — except ,Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old. Should any parties refuse to accept this peace, I will make war upon them, along with those who are of the same mind, both by land and sea, with ships
Page 46 - For no man was at liberty to live as he pleased; the city being like one great camp, where all had their stated allowance, and knew their public charge, each man concluding that he was born, not for himself, but for his country.
Page 108 - Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust : thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Page 255 - For twenty years I was banished from my country after I held the command at Amphipolis, and associating with both sides, with the Peloponnesians quite as much as with the Athenians, because of my exile, I was thus enabled to watch quietly the course of events.
Page ii - Maps. i8mo, 2^. 6d. A HISTORY OF THE ROMANS. For the Use of Middle Forms of Schools. By RF HOKTON, MA Crown Svo, 3^.
Page ii - SCHOOL HISTORY OF ROME. Abridged from Dean MERIVALE'S General History of Rome, with the sanction of the Author. By C. PULLER, MA With 13 full-page Maps.
Page 25 - ... shall do so, we will march against him and destroy his city. If any one shall plunder the property of the god, or shall be cognizant thereof, or shall take treacherous counsel against the things in his temple at Delphi, we will punish him with foot, and hand, and voice, and by every means in our power.
Page 41 - There were fifteen persons to a table, or a few more or less. Each of them was obliged to bring in monthly a bushel of meal, eight gallons of wine, five pounds of cheese, two pounds and a half of figs, and a little money to buy flesh and fish. If any of them happened to offer...