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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... temple of Minerva , called Assesian ; 2 and the temple , thus set on fire , was burned to the ground . No notice was taken of this at the time ; but afterward , when the army had returned to Sardis , Alyattes fell sick . When the ...
... temple of Minerva , called Assesian ; 2 and the temple , thus set on fire , was burned to the ground . No notice was taken of this at the time ; but afterward , when the army had returned to Sardis , Alyattes fell sick . When the ...
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... temple . The herald accordingly went on this mission to Miletus . But Thrasybulus being accurately informed of the ... temples to Minerva at Assesus instead of one , and himself recovered from sickness . Such were the circumstances of ...
... temple . The herald accordingly went on this mission to Miletus . But Thrasybulus being accurately informed of the ... temples to Minerva at Assesus instead of one , and himself recovered from sickness . Such were the circumstances of ...
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... temple to the wall . The distance between the old town , which was then besieged , and the temple , is seven stadia . Croesus then attacked these the first , and afterward the several cities of the Ionians and Eolians one after another ...
... temple to the wall . The distance between the old town , which was then besieged , and the temple , is seven stadia . Croesus then attacked these the first , and afterward the several cities of the Ionians and Eolians one after another ...
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... temple in a chariot ; but the oxen did not come from the field in time ; the young men therefore , being pressed for time , put themselves beneath the yoke , and drew the car in which their mother sat ; and having conveyed it forty ...
... temple in a chariot ; but the oxen did not come from the field in time ; the young men therefore , being pressed for time , put themselves beneath the yoke , and drew the car in which their mother sat ; and having conveyed it forty ...
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... temple of Delphi to consult the god , and asked the ques- tion enjoined them , than the Pythian thus spoke in hexame- ter verse : " I know the number of the sands , and the measure of the sea ; I understand the dumb , and hear him that ...
... temple of Delphi to consult the god , and asked the ques- tion enjoined them , than the Pythian thus spoke in hexame- ter verse : " I know the number of the sands , and the measure of the sea ; I understand the dumb , and hear him that ...
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