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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... side the river Halys . This river flowing from the south between the Syrians and Paphlagonians , empties itself northward into the Euxine Sea . This Croesus was the first of the barbarians whom we The Halys had two branches , one ...
... side the river Halys . This river flowing from the south between the Syrians and Paphlagonians , empties itself northward into the Euxine Sea . This Croesus was the first of the barbarians whom we The Halys had two branches , one ...
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... side ; then passing these and flowing up toward the north , it skirts the Syrian Cappadocians on one side , and the Paphlagonians on the left . Thus the river Halys divides almost the whole of lower Asia , from the sea opposite Cyprus ...
... side ; then passing these and flowing up toward the north , it skirts the Syrian Cappadocians on one side , and the Paphlagonians on the left . Thus the river Halys divides almost the whole of lower Asia , from the sea opposite Cyprus ...
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... side , for reasons which I shall hereafter re- late . Croesus , alleging this against him , sent to consult the oracle if he should make war on the Persians ; and when an ambiguous answer came back , he , interpreting it to his own ...
... side , for reasons which I shall hereafter re- late . Croesus , alleging this against him , sent to consult the oracle if he should make war on the Persians ; and when an ambiguous answer came back , he , interpreting it to his own ...
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... sides , they at last parted on the ap- proach of night , neither having been victorious . In this man- ner did the two armies engage . 77. But Croesus laying the blame on his own army on account of the smallness of its numbers , for his ...
... sides , they at last parted on the ap- proach of night , neither having been victorious . In this man- ner did the two armies engage . 77. But Croesus laying the blame on his own army on account of the smallness of its numbers , for his ...
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... side , for reasons which I shall hereafter re- late.9 Croesus , alleging this against him , sent to consult the oracle if he should make war on the Persians ; and when an ambiguous answer came back , he , interpreting it to his own ...
... side , for reasons which I shall hereafter re- late.9 Croesus , alleging this against him , sent to consult the oracle if he should make war on the Persians ; and when an ambiguous answer came back , he , interpreting it to his own ...
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