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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... body - guard , happened to be his especial favorite , and to him Candaules confided his most important affairs , and moreover extolled the beauty of his wife in exaggerated terms . In lapse of time ( for Candaules was fated to be ...
... body - guard , happened to be his especial favorite , and to him Candaules confided his most important affairs , and moreover extolled the beauty of his wife in exaggerated terms . In lapse of time ( for Candaules was fated to be ...
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... body of cavalry , with intention to make war upon you and Sardis . ' Croesus , think- ing he had spoken the truth , said , " May the gods put such a thought into the Islanders , as to attack the sons of the Lydi- ans with horse . " The ...
... body of cavalry , with intention to make war upon you and Sardis . ' Croesus , think- ing he had spoken the truth , said , " May the gods put such a thought into the Islanders , as to attack the sons of the Lydi- ans with horse . " The ...
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... body , that they were both alike victorious in the public games ; and moreover the following story is related of them : when the Argives were celebrating a festival of Juno , it was necessary that their mother should be drawn to the ...
... body , that they were both alike victorious in the public games ; and moreover the following story is related of them : when the Argives were celebrating a festival of Juno , it was necessary that their mother should be drawn to the ...
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... body did so , the Attic race , being Pelasgic , must , at the time they changed into Hellenes , have altered their language ; for neither do the Crestonians use the same language with any of their neigh- bors , nor do the people of ...
... body did so , the Attic race , being Pelasgic , must , at the time they changed into Hellenes , have altered their language ; for neither do the Crestonians use the same language with any of their neigh- bors , nor do the people of ...
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... body at the temple of the Pallenian1 Minerva , and there took up their position . Here Amphilytus , a prophet of Acarnania , moved by divine impulse , approached Pisistratus , and pronounced this oracle in hexameter verse : " The cast ...
... body at the temple of the Pallenian1 Minerva , and there took up their position . Here Amphilytus , a prophet of Acarnania , moved by divine impulse , approached Pisistratus , and pronounced this oracle in hexameter verse : " The cast ...
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