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... Athenians formerly had silver mines , and a desert island of no great size called after Patroclus ; for he had built a wall in it and laid a palisade , when he sailed as admiral in the Egyptian triremes , which Ptolemy , the son of ...
... Athenians formerly had silver mines , and a desert island of no great size called after Patroclus ; for he had built a wall in it and laid a palisade , when he sailed as admiral in the Egyptian triremes , which Ptolemy , the son of ...
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... Athenians and all the Greeks defeated the Macedonians in battle in Boeotia , and again beyond Thermopyla , and drove them into Lamia over against Mount Eta and shut them up there . And it is in the long portico , where those near the ...
... Athenians and all the Greeks defeated the Macedonians in battle in Boeotia , and again beyond Thermopyla , and drove them into Lamia over against Mount Eta and shut them up there . And it is in the long portico , where those near the ...
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... Athenians say that , when the Amazons came , Antiope was shot by Molpadia with an arrow , and that Molpadia was slain by Theseus . There is a monument also to Molpadia among the Athenians . And as one ascends from the Piræus there are ...
... Athenians say that , when the Amazons came , Antiope was shot by Molpadia with an arrow , and that Molpadia was slain by Theseus . There is a monument also to Molpadia among the Athenians . And as one ascends from the Piræus there are ...
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... Athenians imitated the Eleusinian mysteries . But in my time it was consecrated to Dionysus . And this Dio- nysus ... Athenians feast- ing Dionysus and all the other gods . Here too is Pegasus Eleutherensis , who introduced Dionysus to ...
... Athenians imitated the Eleusinian mysteries . But in my time it was consecrated to Dionysus . And this Dio- nysus ... Athenians feast- ing Dionysus and all the other gods . Here too is Pegasus Eleutherensis , who introduced Dionysus to ...
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... Athenians , for he chanced to die in his father's lifetime , and the king- dom of Cecrops fell to Cranaus , the ... Athenian and one who had ancestral connection with Salamis , for his pedigree went up to Teucer and the daughter of ...
... Athenians , for he chanced to die in his father's lifetime , and the king- dom of Cecrops fell to Cranaus , the ... Athenian and one who had ancestral connection with Salamis , for his pedigree went up to Teucer and the daughter of ...
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