The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Greeks, Volumen3

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James, John and Paul Knapton, 1735
 

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Página 474 - Syracusan vessels, which were sail,ing out against them from the great harbour ; and opposed thirty.five more to the forty.five of the enemy which were come out of the little port. A sharp engagement was fought at the mouth of the great harbour, one party endeavouring to force their way into it, and the other to keep them out. Those who defended the forts of Plemmyrium having flocked to the shore to view the battle, Gylippus attacked the forts unexpectedly by...
Página 486 - Syracusans, and their crews cut to pieces by them. After this, resolving to burn the rest, they filled an old vessel with combustible materials, and having set fire to it, they drove it by the help of the wind against the Athenians, who nevertheless extinguished the fire, and drove off that...
Página 496 - ... cruelty ? How ! will you suffer your glory to be thus sullied, in the face of the whole world, and have it said, that a nation, who first dedicated a temple in their city to clemency, had not found any in yours ? Surely victories and triumphs do not give immortal glory to a city ! but the exercising...
Página 495 - At that instant, an ancient man, venerable for his great age and gravity, who, in this war, had lost two sons, the only heirs to his name and estate, made his servants carry him to the tribunal for harangues, and, the instant he appeared, a profound silence was made.
Página 79 - Aristagoras, in order to engage the lonians to adhere the more closely to him, reinstated them in their liberty, and in all their former privileges. He began with Miletus, where he divested himself of his power, and resigned it into the hands of the people. He then made a journey through all Ionia, where, by his example, his influence and perhaps by the fear that they would be forced to it whether they would or not, he prevailed upon all the other tyrants to do the same in every city.
Página 128 - He entertained Xerxes and his whole army with an incredible magnificence, and made him an offer of all his wealth towards defraying the expenses of his expedition. Xerxes, surprised and charmed at so generous an offer, had the curiosity to inquire to what sum his riches amounted.
Página 491 - They could not bear the comparison, for ever present in their thoughts, of the triumphant state in which they had left Athens, in the midst of the good wishes and acclamations of the people, with the ignominy of their retreat, aggravated by the cries and imprecations of their relations and fellow-citizens.
Página 479 - ... having wintered in Catana, instead of going directly to Syracuse ; and had afterwards given Gylippus an opportunity of throwing troops into it He flattered himself with the hopes, that he should be able to carry the city at the first attack, by taking advantage of the alarm which the news of his arrival would spread in every part of it, and by that means should immediately put an end to the war : otherwise he intended to raise the siege, and no longer harass and lessen the troops by fighting...
Página 204 - Themistocles having conceived the design of supplanting the Lacedemonians , and of taking the government of Greece out of their hands, in order to put it into those of the Athenians , kept his eye and his thoughts continually fixed upon that great project : and as he was not very nice or scrupulous in the choice of his measures , whatever tended towards the accomplishing• of the end he had in view, he looked upon as just and lawful.
Página 259 - Prince fhall be feven weeks, and threefcore and two weeks ; the ftreet fhall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times; and after threefcore and two weeks fhall...

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