Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of BaehrH.G. Bohn, 1848 - 613 pages |
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... cause . 62. Having set out from Eretria , they came back in the eleventh year of their exile , and first of all possessed themselves of Marathon . While they lay encamped in this place , both their partisans from the city joined them ...
... cause . 62. Having set out from Eretria , they came back in the eleventh year of their exile , and first of all possessed themselves of Marathon . While they lay encamped in this place , both their partisans from the city joined them ...
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... caused the stream , which flowed along the left of the army , to flow likewise on the right ; and he contrived it thus ... cause for blame . But Cyrus , having assembled his own army , and having taken with him all who inhabited the ...
... caused the stream , which flowed along the left of the army , to flow likewise on the right ; and he contrived it thus ... cause for blame . But Cyrus , having assembled his own army , and having taken with him all who inhabited the ...
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... caused their burdens to be taken off , he mounted men upon them equipped in cavalry accoutrements , and having furnished them , he ordered them to go in advance of the rest of his army against the Lydian horse ; and he commanded his in ...
... caused their burdens to be taken off , he mounted men upon them equipped in cavalry accoutrements , and having furnished them , he ordered them to go in advance of the rest of his army against the Lydian horse ; and he commanded his in ...
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... caused it to be carried round the rest of the wall , where the citadel was exposed to assault , neglected this , as altogether unassailable and precipitous : this is the quarter of the city that faces Mount Tmolus . Now this Hyrcades ...
... caused it to be carried round the rest of the wall , where the citadel was exposed to assault , neglected this , as altogether unassailable and precipitous : this is the quarter of the city that faces Mount Tmolus . Now this Hyrcades ...
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... cause of all . For no man is so void of understanding as to prefer war before peace ; for in the latter children bury their fathers ; in the former , fathers bury their children . But , I suppose , it pleased the gods that these things ...
... cause of all . For no man is so void of understanding as to prefer war before peace ; for in the latter children bury their fathers ; in the former , fathers bury their children . But , I suppose , it pleased the gods that these things ...
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