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... ruined their state : and the fre- quent murders of their generals , which Diodorus ** tells * Thucyd . lib . 8 . + Xenoph . de rebus Græc . lib . 2 . Memorab . lib . 3 . Polyb . frag . lib . 6 . Lib . 20 . us was grown to an established ...
... ruined their state : and the fre- quent murders of their generals , which Diodorus ** tells * Thucyd . lib . 8 . + Xenoph . de rebus Græc . lib . 2 . Memorab . lib . 3 . Polyb . frag . lib . 6 . Lib . 20 . us was grown to an established ...
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... ruin of Greece having been owing to the former , as that of Rome was to the latter , I fhall treat on both exprefsly ; that those states who are concerned in either ( if at least there be any fuch now in the world ) , may , by obferving ...
... ruin of Greece having been owing to the former , as that of Rome was to the latter , I fhall treat on both exprefsly ; that those states who are concerned in either ( if at least there be any fuch now in the world ) , may , by obferving ...
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... ruin of Athens . The fame people , having refolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty fleet under the command of Nicias , Ly- fimachus , and Alcibiades ; the two former , perfons of age and experience ; the laft , a young man of noble ...
... ruin of Athens . The fame people , having refolved to fubdue Sicily , fent a mighty fleet under the command of Nicias , Ly- fimachus , and Alcibiades ; the two former , perfons of age and experience ; the laft , a young man of noble ...
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... ruins their works , and changes the form of their government ; which though again re- ftored for fome time by Thrafybulus , ( as their walls were rebuilt by Conon ) , yet here we must date the fall of the Athenian greatness ; the ...
... ruins their works , and changes the form of their government ; which though again re- ftored for fome time by Thrafybulus , ( as their walls were rebuilt by Conon ) , yet here we must date the fall of the Athenian greatness ; the ...
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... ruin of the coinmonwealth .. What I have hitherto faid of Rome , has been chiefly collected out of that exact and diligent writer Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus , whofe hiftory , through the injury of time ,. reaches no farther than to the ...
... ruin of the coinmonwealth .. What I have hitherto faid of Rome , has been chiefly collected out of that exact and diligent writer Dionyfius Halicarnaffeus , whofe hiftory , through the injury of time ,. reaches no farther than to the ...
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