Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of BaehrH.G. Bohn, 1848 - 613 pages |
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... seen by you . I will place you behind the open door of the apartment in which we sleep ; as soon as I enter my wife will come to bed ; there stands by the entrance a chair , on this she will lay her garments one by one as she takes them ...
... seen by you . I will place you behind the open door of the apartment in which we sleep ; as soon as I enter my wife will come to bed ; there stands by the entrance a chair , on this she will lay her garments one by one as she takes them ...
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... seen these things , and delivered to Thrasybulus the mes- sage of the Lydian king , he returned to Sardis ; and , as I am informed , a reconciliation was brought about for no other reason . For Alyattes expecting that there was a great ...
... seen these things , and delivered to Thrasybulus the mes- sage of the Lydian king , he returned to Sardis ; and , as I am informed , a reconciliation was brought about for no other reason . For Alyattes expecting that there was a great ...
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... seen and examined every thing sufficiently , Croesus asked him this question : " My Athenian guest , your great fame has reached even to us , as well of your wisdom as of your travels , how that as a philosopher you have travelled ...
... seen and examined every thing sufficiently , Croesus asked him this question : " My Athenian guest , your great fame has reached even to us , as well of your wisdom as of your travels , how that as a philosopher you have travelled ...
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... seen next to him . " Cleobis , " said he , " and Biton , for they being natives of Argos , possessed a sufficient fortune , and had withal such strength of body , that they were both alike victorious in the public games ; and moreover ...
... seen next to him . " Cleobis , " said he , " and Biton , for they being natives of Argos , possessed a sufficient fortune , and had withal such strength of body , that they were both alike victorious in the public games ; and moreover ...
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... seen any cowardice , or any thing else unbecoming in you ; but a vision in a dream appearing to me in my sleep warned me that you would be short - lived , and would die by the point of an iron weapon . On account of this vision ...
... seen any cowardice , or any thing else unbecoming in you ; but a vision in a dream appearing to me in my sleep warned me that you would be short - lived , and would die by the point of an iron weapon . On account of this vision ...
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