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" Sparta, and that they should give him colleagues who were not to go immediately, but were to wait until the wall reached the lowest height which could possibly be defended. The whole people, men, women, and children, should join in the work, and they... "
Thucydides Translated Into English - Page 55
by Thucydides - 1881
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College Greek Course in English

William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1884 - 350 pages
...wiles, Themistocles. Let Thucydides speak : To this [the Lacedaemonian suggestion about the city walls] the Athenians, by the advice of Themistocles, replied,...The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him ; but when every body who came from Athens declared positively...
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College Greek Course in English, Volume 59

William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1884 - 344 pages
...to discuss the matter, and so got rid of the Spartan envoys. He then proposed that he should himseff start at once for Sparta, and that they should give...The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him ; but when every body who came from Athens declared positively...
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Classic Greek Course in English, Volume 60

William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1892 - 334 pages
...work, and they must spare no building, private or public, which could be of use, but demolish thenvall. Having given these instructions and intimated that...colleagues, who had been detained by some engagement, he was dai'y expecting them, and wondered that they had not appeared." The friendship of the Lacedaemonian...
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Greece in the Age of Pericles

Arthur James Grant - 1893 - 366 pages
...men, women, and children, should join in the work, and they must spare no building, public or private, which could be of use, but demolish them all. Having...that they had not appeared.' The friendship of the magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him, but when everybody who came from Athens declared...
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A History of Greece for High Schools and Academies

George Willis Botsford - 1899 - 452 pages
...Lacedaemon. Themistocles "proposed that he should start at once for Sparta, and that his colleagues should wait until the wall reached the lowest height which..."The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him; but when everybody who came from Athens declared positively...
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A History of Greece for High Schools and Academies

George Willis Botsford - 1899 - 452 pages
...Lacedaemon. Themistocies " proposed that he should start at once for Sparta, and that his colleagues should wait until the wall reached the lowest height which...expecting them, and wondered that they had not appeared. Athens the "The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for equal of Themistocies induced them...
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A History of the Orient and Greece: For High Schools and Academies

George Willis Botsford - 1901 - 510 pages
...Lacedaemon. Themistocles " proposed that he should start at once for Sparta, and that his colleagues should wait until the wall reached the lowest height which..."The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him; but when everybody who came from Athens declared positively...
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An Ancient History for Beginners

George Willis Botsford - 1902 - 610 pages
...issue. " Thcmistocles proposed that he should start at once for Sparta, and that his colleagues should wait until the wall reached the lowest height which...The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for Themistoclcs induced them to believe him ; but when everybody who came from Athens declared positively...
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An Ancient History for Beginners

George Willis Botsford - 1902 - 606 pages
...and that his colleagues should wait until the wall reached the lowest height which could possibly he defended. The whole people, men, women, and children,...The friendship of the Lacedaemonian magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him ; but when everybody who came from Athens declared positively...
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Ancient History to the Death of Charlemagne

Willis Mason West - 1902 - 688 pages
...but were to wait until the wall had reached the lowest height which could possibly be defended. ... On his arrival, he did not at once present himself...colleagues, who had been detained by some engagement. . . . The friendship of the magistrates for Themistocles induced them to believe him, but when everybody...
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