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Page 186
... mind suited to my present calamities ; prepared alike for favours and for anger ; to welcome your gracious reconciliation , and to deprecate your wrath . Take my own countrymen for witnesses of the services I have done for Persia , and ...
... mind suited to my present calamities ; prepared alike for favours and for anger ; to welcome your gracious reconciliation , and to deprecate your wrath . Take my own countrymen for witnesses of the services I have done for Persia , and ...
Page 189
... mind chiefly to resist the Greeks , and to check the growth of their power against him , began to raise forces , and send out commanders , and to de- spatch messengers to Themistocles at Magnesia , to put him in mind of his promise ...
... mind chiefly to resist the Greeks , and to check the growth of their power against him , began to raise forces , and send out commanders , and to de- spatch messengers to Themistocles at Magnesia , to put him in mind of his promise ...
Page 390
... mind to engage at once , and bidding his soldiers observe how their forces were divided into two separate bodies by the intervention of the stream , some being already over , and others still to ford it , gave Demaretus command to fall ...
... mind to engage at once , and bidding his soldiers observe how their forces were divided into two separate bodies by the intervention of the stream , some being already over , and others still to ford it , gave Demaretus command to fall ...
Contents
THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
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