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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... women came down to the sea - shore , and among them the king's daughter , whose name , as the Greeks also say , was Io , daughter of Inachus . They add , that while these women were standing near the stern of the vessel , and were ...
... women came down to the sea - shore , and among them the king's daughter , whose name , as the Greeks also say , was Io , daughter of Inachus . They add , that while these women were standing near the stern of the vessel , and were ...
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... women that were carried off ; but that the Greeks for the sake of a Lacedæmonian woman assembled a mighty fleet , and then having come to Asia overthrew the empire of Priam . That from this event they had always considered the Greeks as ...
... women that were carried off ; but that the Greeks for the sake of a Lacedæmonian woman assembled a mighty fleet , and then having come to Asia overthrew the empire of Priam . That from this event they had always considered the Greeks as ...
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... women . Now being of this opinion - Gyges , son of Dascylus , one of his body - guard , happened to be his especial ... woman puts off her modesty . Wise maxims have been of old laid down by men , from these it is our duty to learn ...
... women . Now being of this opinion - Gyges , son of Dascylus , one of his body - guard , happened to be his especial ... woman puts off her modesty . Wise maxims have been of old laid down by men , from these it is our duty to learn ...
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... women blessed her as the mother of such sons ; but the mother herself , transported with joy both on account of the action and its renown , stood before the image , and prayed that the goddess would grant to Cleobis and Biton , her own ...
... women blessed her as the mother of such sons ; but the mother herself , transported with joy both on account of the action and its renown , stood before the image , and prayed that the goddess would grant to Cleobis and Biton , her own ...
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... woman in gold three cubits high , which the Delphians say is the image of Croesus's baking - woman ; and to all these things he added the necklaces and girdles of his wife . 52. These were the offerings he sent to Delphi ; and to ...
... woman in gold three cubits high , which the Delphians say is the image of Croesus's baking - woman ; and to all these things he added the necklaces and girdles of his wife . 52. These were the offerings he sent to Delphi ; and to ...
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