Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr. .c With a Geographical and General IndexHarper & Bros., 1855 - 613 pages |
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... Athenians could not do it themselves , since they were bound by solemn oaths to observe for ten years whatever laws ... Athenians in a battle with their neighbors of Eleusis , he put the enemy to flight , and died nobly . The Athenians ...
... Athenians could not do it themselves , since they were bound by solemn oaths to observe for ten years whatever laws ... Athenians in a battle with their neighbors of Eleusis , he put the enemy to flight , and died nobly . The Athenians ...
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... Athenians , who are esteemed among the wisest of the Grecians . In the Pæ- anean tribe was a woman named Phya , four cubits high , want- ing three fingers , and in other respects handsome ; having dressed this woman in a complete suit ...
... Athenians , who are esteemed among the wisest of the Grecians . In the Pæ- anean tribe was a woman named Phya , four cubits high , want- ing three fingers , and in other respects handsome ; having dressed this woman in a complete suit ...
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... Athenians of the city were then engaged at their breakfast , and some of them , after breakfast , had betaken themselves to dice , others to sleep ; so that the army of Pisistratus , falling upon them by surprise , soon put them to ...
... Athenians of the city were then engaged at their breakfast , and some of them , after breakfast , had betaken themselves to dice , others to sleep ; so that the army of Pisistratus , falling upon them by surprise , soon put them to ...
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... Athenians , shunned the name , and would not be called Io- nians ; and even now many of them appear to me to be ashamed of the name . But these twelve cities gloried in the name , and built a temple for their own use , to which they ...
... Athenians , shunned the name , and would not be called Io- nians ; and even now many of them appear to me to be ashamed of the name . But these twelve cities gloried in the name , and built a temple for their own use , to which they ...
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... Athenians were the first of all the Greeks who adopted this practice , and others from them ; for the Pelasgians dwelt in the same country as the Athenians , who were already ranked among Greeks , whence they also began to be reckoned ...
... Athenians were the first of all the Greeks who adopted this practice , and others from them ; for the Pelasgians dwelt in the same country as the Athenians , who were already ranked among Greeks , whence they also began to be reckoned ...
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