Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of BaehrH.G. Bohn, 1848 - 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 , who are esteemed among the wisest of the Grecians . In the Pæ- anean tribe was a woman named Phya , four cubits high , want- ing three fingers , and in other respects handsome ; having dressed this woman in a complete suit ...
... Athenians , who are esteemed among the wisest of the Grecians . In the Pæ- anean tribe was a woman named Phya , four cubits high , want- ing three fingers , and in other respects handsome ; having dressed this woman in a complete suit ...
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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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