The Histories of HerodotusD. Appleton, 1899 - 568 pages |
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... carried off the king's daughter Medea ; and that the King of Colchis , having despatched a herald to Greece , demanded satisfaction for the rape , and the restitution of the princess ; but the Greeks replied , that as they of Asia had ...
... carried off the king's daughter Medea ; and that the King of Colchis , having despatched a herald to Greece , demanded satisfaction for the rape , and the restitution of the princess ; but the Greeks replied , that as they of Asia had ...
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... carried off ; but that the Greeks for the sake of a Lacedæmonian woman assembled a mighty fleet , and then having ... carry her into Egypt ; but that she had connection at Argos with the master of a vessel , and when she found herself ...
... carried off ; but that the Greeks for the sake of a Lacedæmonian woman assembled a mighty fleet , and then having ... carry her into Egypt ; but that she had connection at Argos with the master of a vessel , and when she found herself ...
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... carried on the war eleven years , during which the Milesians received two great blows , one in a battle at Limeneion in their own territory , the other in the plain of the Mæander . Six of these eleven years Sadyattes , the son of Ardys ...
... carried on the war eleven years , during which the Milesians received two great blows , one in a battle at Limeneion in their own territory , the other in the plain of the Mæander . Six of these eleven years Sadyattes , the son of Ardys ...
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... carried him to Tænarus ; and that he , having landed , pro- ceeded to Corinth in his full dress , and upon his arrival there related all that had happened ; but that Periander , giving no credit to his relation , put Arion under close ...
... carried him to Tænarus ; and that he , having landed , pro- ceeded to Corinth in his full dress , and upon his arrival there related all that had happened ; but that Periander , giving no credit to his relation , put Arion under close ...
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... carried them away with him to Sparta . From that time , whenever they made trial of each other's strength , the Lacedæmonians were by far superior in war ; and the greater part of Peloponnesus had been already subdued by them . Croesus ...
... carried them away with him to Sparta . From that time , whenever they made trial of each other's strength , the Lacedæmonians were by far superior in war ; and the greater part of Peloponnesus had been already subdued by them . Croesus ...
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