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... History . " There is often a quiet vein of humour in Pausanias , who seems to have been almost equally a believer in Providence and in Homer . I have translated from Schubart's Text in the Teubner 1 George Scharf , Esq . , F.S.A. 1859 ...
... History . " There is often a quiet vein of humour in Pausanias , who seems to have been almost equally a believer in Providence and in Homer . I have translated from Schubart's Text in the Teubner 1 George Scharf , Esq . , F.S.A. 1859 ...
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... history of the entire war , the occupation of Cadmeia , and the slaughter of the Lace- damonians at Leuctra , and how the Bootians made a raid into the Peloponnese , and of the help that came to the Lacedemonians from the Athenians ...
... history of the entire war , the occupation of Cadmeia , and the slaughter of the Lace- damonians at Leuctra , and how the Bootians made a raid into the Peloponnese , and of the help that came to the Lacedemonians from the Athenians ...
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... history like a courtier . And if Philistus , hoping for a return to Syracuse , was justified in concealing the most flagitious acts of Dionysius , then Hieronymus , I ween , had good excuse for writing to please Antigonus . Such was the ...
... history like a courtier . And if Philistus , hoping for a return to Syracuse , was justified in concealing the most flagitious acts of Dionysius , then Hieronymus , I ween , had good excuse for writing to please Antigonus . Such was the ...
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... history of the white dog may be learnt by those who have read the oracle . And there are altars to Her- cules and Hebe , ( the daughter of Zeus ) , who , they think , was married to Hercules . There is also an altar of Alc- mene and ...
... history of the white dog may be learnt by those who have read the oracle . And there are altars to Her- cules and Hebe , ( the daughter of Zeus ) , who , they think , was married to Hercules . There is also an altar of Alc- mene and ...
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... history of Mithridates concern themselves about all this : I shall merely relate the circumstances attending the capture of Athens . There was an Athenian called Aristion , whom Mithridates employed as ambassador to the Greek States ...
... history of Mithridates concern themselves about all this : I shall merely relate the circumstances attending the capture of Athens . There was an Athenian called Aristion , whom Mithridates employed as ambassador to the Greek States ...
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