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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... 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 miserable ) he ad ...
... 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 miserable ) he ad ...
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... happened to have a son , to disown him . How- ever , Hippocrates , when Chilon gave this advice , would not be persuaded , and had afterward this same Pisistratus ; who , when a quarrel happened between those who dwelt on the sea ...
... happened to have a son , to disown him . How- ever , Hippocrates , when Chilon gave this advice , would not be persuaded , and had afterward this same Pisistratus ; who , when a quarrel happened between those who dwelt on the sea ...
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... happened that these Scyth- ians , who were constantly going out to hunt , and who always brought home something , on one occasion took nothing . their returning empty - handed , Cyaxares ( for he was , as he proved , of a violent temper ) ...
... happened that these Scyth- ians , who were constantly going out to hunt , and who always brought home something , on one occasion took nothing . their returning empty - handed , Cyaxares ( for he was , as he proved , of a violent temper ) ...
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... happened that in the heat of the battle day was suddenly turned into night . This change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians , fixing beforehand this year as the very period in which the change actually took place ...
... happened that in the heat of the battle day was suddenly turned into night . This change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians , fixing beforehand this year as the very period in which the change actually took place ...
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... happened that in the heat of the battle day was suddenly turned into night . This change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians , fixing beforehand this year as the very period in which the change actually took place ...
... happened that in the heat of the battle day was suddenly turned into night . This change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians , fixing beforehand this year as the very period in which the change actually took place ...
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