Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of BaehrH.G. Bohn, 1848 - 613 pages |
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... brought those institutions from Crete . For as soon as he had taken the guardianship , he altered all their customs , and took care that no one should transgress them . Afterwards he established military regula- tions , the enomotiæ ...
... brought those institutions from Crete . For as soon as he had taken the guardianship , he altered all their customs , and took care that no one should transgress them . Afterwards he established military regula- tions , the enomotiæ ...
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... brought , and measuring the lands of the Tegeans with a rod . Those fetters in which they were bound , were , even in my time , preserved in Tegea , sus- pended around the temple of Alean Minerva . 67. In the first war , therefore ...
... brought , and measuring the lands of the Tegeans with a rod . Those fetters in which they were bound , were , even in my time , preserved in Tegea , sus- pended around the temple of Alean Minerva . 67. In the first war , therefore ...
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... brought this news of his own enterprise to Croesus . Thereupon Crœsus , being thrown into great perplexity , seeing that matters had turned out contrary to his expectations , nevertheless drew out the Lydians to battle ; and at that ...
... brought this news of his own enterprise to Croesus . Thereupon Crœsus , being thrown into great perplexity , seeing that matters had turned out contrary to his expectations , nevertheless drew out the Lydians to battle ; and at that ...
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... brought the lion which his concubine bore to him , though the Telmessians had pronounced , that if the lion were carried round the wall , Sardis would be impregnable ; but Meles , having caused it to be carried round the rest of the ...
... brought the lion which his concubine bore to him , though the Telmessians had pronounced , that if the lion were carried round the wall , Sardis would be impregnable ; but Meles , having caused it to be carried round the rest of the ...
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... brought down from Mount Tmolus . It exhibits , however , one work the greatest of all , except those of the Egyptians and Babylonians . There is there a monument to Alyattes , father of Croesus , the basis of which is composed of large ...
... brought down from Mount Tmolus . It exhibits , however , one work the greatest of all , except those of the Egyptians and Babylonians . There is there a monument to Alyattes , father of Croesus , the basis of which is composed of large ...
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