The History of Herodotus. A new Engl. version, ed. with notes by G. Rawlinson assisted by sir H. Rawlinson and sir J.G. Wilkinson, Volume 41875 |
Common terms and phrases
according afterwards Anab ancient appears Arian Artabanus Artemisium Asia Asôpus Assyrian Athenians Athens Attica Bactrians barbarians battle called Cape Caspian Chorasmians coast Colonel Leake command Ctesias Cyrus Darius Demaratus Diod Diodorus Dorians east Eginetans Egyptian Eschylus Euboea fight fleet force Gelo Greece Greeks Grote Hellespont Herod Herodotus Hist Ibid infra inhabitants inscription Ionians Isthmus king Lacedæmonians land Leake's Leonidas likewise Mardonius Medes mentioned modern mountain Müller's nations Northern Greece oracle pass passage Pausan Pausanias Peloponnese Peloponnesian Peripl Persians Phocians Phoenicians plain Platæa Plin Pliny Plut Plutarch probably Ptolemy race river Salamis satrapy Scylax seems sent ships Sogdiana Spartans Steph Strab stream temple Thebans thee Themistocles Thermopyla Thessalians Thessaly thou Thracian Thucyd Thucydides tion took town tract tribes triremes troops vessels vide supra viii whole writers Xerxes καὶ τῶν
Popular passages
Page 157 - Lacedaemonians fought in a way worthy of note, and showed themselves far more skilful in fight than their adversaries, often turning their backs, and making as though they were all flying away, on which the barbarians would rush after them with much noise and shouting, when the Spartans at their approach would wheel round and face their pursuers, in this way destroying vast numbers of the enemy.
Page 162 - ... the victims as he was sacrificing. After this deserters came in, and brought the news that the Persians were marching round by the hills : it was still night when these men arrived. Last of all, the scouts came running down from the heights, and brought in the same accounts, when the day was just beginning to break. Then the Greeks held a council to consider what they should do, and here opinions were divided : some were strong against quitting their post, while others contended to the contrary....
Page 102 - When the Athenian messengers heard this reply, they were filled with the deepest affliction: whereupon Timon, the son of Androbulus, one of the men of most mark among the Delphians, seeing how utterly cast down they were at the gloomy prophecy, advised them to take an olive-branch, and entering the sanctuary again, consult the oracle as suppliants.
Page 156 - But Xerxes was not persuaded any the more. Four whole days he suffered to go by,4 expecting that the Greeks would run away. When, however, he found on the fifth that they were not gone, thinking that their firm stand was mere impudence and recklessness, he grew wroth, and sent against them the Medes and Cissians, with orders to take them alive and bring them into his presence. Then the Medes rushed forward and charged the Greeks, but fell in vast numbers : others however took the places of the slain,...
Page 161 - Ephialtes to what nation those troops belonged. Ephialtes told him the exact truth, whereupon he arrayed his Persians for battle. The Phocians, galled by the showers of arrows to which they were exposed, and imagining themselves the special object of the Persian attack, fled hastily to the crest of the mountain, and there made ready to meet death; but while their mistake continued, the Persians, with Ephialtes and Hydarnes, not thinking it worth their while to delay on account of Phocians, passed...
Page 74 - And yet, if all thy fellow-citizens be indeed such as thou sayest they are, thou oughtest, as their king, by thine own country's usages, to be ready to fight with twice the number. If then each one of them be a match for ten of my soldiers, I may well call upon thee to be a match for twenty.
Page 279 - Mars' hill by the Athenians, and began the siege of the place, attacking the Greeks with arrows whereto pieces of lighted tow were attached, which they shot at the barricade. And now those who were within the citadel found themselves in a most woeful case ; for their wooden rampart betrayed them ; still, however, they continued to resist. It was in vain that the...
Page 298 - He now came to the council and standing outside called for Themistocles. Now Themistocles was not his friend, but his most determined enemy. However, under the pressure of the great dangers impending, Aristides forgot their feud and called Themistocles out of the council, since he wished to confer with him. He had heard before his arrival of the impatience of the Peloponnesians to withdraw the fleet to the Isthmus. As soon therefore as Themistocles came forth, Aristides addressed him in these words:...
Page 279 - ... rolled down huge masses of stone upon the barbarians as they were mounting up to the gates: so that Xerxes was for a long time very greatly perplexed, and could not contrive any way to take them.
Page 166 - Here they defended themselves to the last, such as still had swords using them, and the others resisting with their hands and teeth; till the barbarians, who in part had pulled down the wall and attacked them in front, in part had gone round and now encircled them upon every side, overwhelmed and buried the remnant which was left beneath showers of missile weapons.