Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a Geographical and General IndexH.G. Bohn, 1852 - 613 pages |
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... Athenians could not do it themselves , since they were bound by solemn oaths to observe for ten years whatever laws ... Athenians in a battle with their neighbours of Eleusis , he put the enemy to flight , and died nobly . The Athenians ...
... Athenians could not do it themselves , since they were bound by solemn oaths to observe for ten years whatever laws ... Athenians in a battle with their neighbours of Eleusis , he put the enemy to flight , and died nobly . The Athenians ...
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... Athenians excelled the rest , the former being of Dorian , the latter of Ionic descent for these were in ancient time the most distinguished , the latter being a Pelasgian , the other an Hellenic nation ; the latter had never emigrated ...
... Athenians excelled the rest , the former being of Dorian , the latter of Ionic descent for these were in ancient time the most distinguished , the latter being a Pelasgian , the other an Hellenic nation ; the latter had never emigrated ...
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... Athenians of the city were then engaged at their breakfast , and some of them after breakfast had betaken themselves to dice , others to sleep ; so that the army of Pisistratus , falling upon them by surprise , soon put them to flight ...
... Athenians of the city were then engaged at their breakfast , and some of them after breakfast had betaken themselves to dice , others to sleep ; so that the army of Pisistratus , falling upon them by surprise , soon put them to flight ...
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... Athenians were the first of all the Greeks who adopted this practice , and others from them ; for the Pelasgians dwelt in the same country as the Athenians , who were already ranked among Greeks , whence they also began to be reckoned ...
... Athenians were the first of all the Greeks who adopted this practice , and others from them ; for the Pelasgians dwelt in the same country as the Athenians , who were already ranked among Greeks , whence they also began to be reckoned ...
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... Athenians and their allies ; and from this Megabyzus sprung Zopyrus , who deserted to the Athenians from the Persians . BOOK IV . MELPOMENE . AFTER the capture of Babylon 236 [ 159 , 160 . HERODOTUS .
... Athenians and their allies ; and from this Megabyzus sprung Zopyrus , who deserted to the Athenians from the Persians . BOOK IV . MELPOMENE . AFTER the capture of Babylon 236 [ 159 , 160 . HERODOTUS .
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