Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of BaehrH.G. Bohn, 1848 - 613 pages |
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... equal perhaps in extent to those which he has pointed out in his predecessors . His object , however , has been to keep as closely to the sense of his author as the idioms of the two languages would allow . He has adopted throughout the ...
... equal perhaps in extent to those which he has pointed out in his predecessors . His object , however , has been to keep as closely to the sense of his author as the idioms of the two languages would allow . He has adopted throughout the ...
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... equal to the coffin in length , and after I had measured it , I covered it up again . The man told him what he had seen , but Lichas , re- flecting on what was said , conjectured from the words of the oracle , that this must be the body ...
... equal to the coffin in length , and after I had measured it , I covered it up again . The man told him what he had seen , but Lichas , re- flecting on what was said , conjectured from the words of the oracle , that this must be the body ...
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... equal suc- cess , on occasion of an engagement , it happened that in the heat of the battle day was suddenly turned into night . This change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians , fixing beforehand this year as the ...
... equal suc- cess , on occasion of an engagement , it happened that in the heat of the battle day was suddenly turned into night . This change of the day Thales the Milesian had foretold to the Ionians , fixing beforehand this year as the ...
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... equal terms , would venture to advance upon Sardis . 78 . While Croesus was forming these plans the whole suburbs were filled with serpents , and when they appeared , the horses , forsaking their pastures , came and devoured them . When ...
... equal terms , would venture to advance upon Sardis . 78 . While Croesus was forming these plans the whole suburbs were filled with serpents , and when they appeared , the horses , forsaking their pastures , came and devoured them . When ...
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... equal suc- cess , that of the six hundred , three men only were left alive ; of the Argians , Alcenor and Chromius , and of the Lacedæmonians , Othryades ; these survived when night came on . The two Ar- gians thinking themselves ...
... equal suc- cess , that of the six hundred , three men only were left alive ; of the Argians , Alcenor and Chromius , and of the Lacedæmonians , Othryades ; these survived when night came on . The two Ar- gians thinking themselves ...
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