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... Themistocles and Aristi- des . The defeat of the Carthaginians in Sicily IX . The battle of Platea X. The battle near Mycale . The defeat of the Persians XI . The barbarous and inhuman revenge of Amestris , the wife of Xerxes XII . The ...
... Themistocles and Aristi- des . The defeat of the Carthaginians in Sicily IX . The battle of Platea X. The battle near Mycale . The defeat of the Persians XI . The barbarous and inhuman revenge of Amestris , the wife of Xerxes XII . The ...
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... Themistocles flies to Artaxerxes III . Cimon begins to make a figure at Athens . His first alchievement and double victory over the Persians , near the river Eurymedon . Death of The- mistocles IV . The Egyptians rise against Persia ...
... Themistocles flies to Artaxerxes III . Cimon begins to make a figure at Athens . His first alchievement and double victory over the Persians , near the river Eurymedon . Death of The- mistocles IV . The Egyptians rise against Persia ...
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... Themistocles , who was sensible , that in calm weather almost any mariner may be capable of conducting a vessel , but that in storms and tempests the most able pilots are at a loss , was convinced that the commonwealth was ruined , if ...
... Themistocles , who was sensible , that in calm weather almost any mariner may be capable of conducting a vessel , but that in storms and tempests the most able pilots are at a loss , was convinced that the commonwealth was ruined , if ...
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... Themistocles , what Titus Livius says of Fabius on a like occasion . This great com- mander finding , when Hannibal was in the heart of Italy , that the people were going to make a man of no merit consul , employed all his own credit ...
... Themistocles , what Titus Livius says of Fabius on a like occasion . This great com- mander finding , when Hannibal was in the heart of Italy , that the people were going to make a man of no merit consul , employed all his own credit ...
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... Themistocles was so far from oppos- ing the decree for that purpose , that he promoted it with all his credit and authority . The hatred and division of these great men had nothing in them of that implacable , bitter , and outrageous ...
... Themistocles was so far from oppos- ing the decree for that purpose , that he promoted it with all his credit and authority . The hatred and division of these great men had nothing in them of that implacable , bitter , and outrageous ...
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The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians ..., Volume 3 Charles Rollin Volledige weergave - 1804 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 138 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Pagina 138 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself...
Pagina 137 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Pagina 18 - Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden. He appointed workmen more able and expert than the former, who went about it in this manner. They placed three hundred and sixty vessels across, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars apiece, with their sides turned towards the Euxine sea; and on the side that faced the ^Egean sea they put three hundred and fourteen.
Pagina 66 - The whole day passed in this manner without their coming to action. In the evening the Grecians held a council of war, in which it was resolved, that they should decamp from the place they were in, and march to another, more conveniently situated for water. Night being...
Pagina 483 - ... says Plutarch, more passionately, than to conquer Cyrus himself, or to preserve the sovereignty of his estates. Those ten thousand men, however, notwithstanding so many obstacles, carried their point, and arrived, through a thousand dangers, victorious and triumphant in their own country.
Pagina 138 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Pagina 443 - Clearchus, who comn anded them, had occasion for all his address and ability to stifle this commotion in its birth. At first he made use of authority and force, but with very ill success, and desisted therefore from...
Pagina 359 - ... of my old age. I cannot, indeed, forbear admiring their courage and felicity, in sacrificing to their country's welfare a life, of which they would one day have been deprived by the common course of nature : but then I cannot but be strongly affected...
Pagina 343 - All these gallies were richly trimmed; their prows being adorned with shining streamers, manned with stout rowers, commanded by good officers, and echoing with the sound of clarions and trumpets; Demosthenes having affected an air of pomp and triumph, purposely to strike terror into the enemy. This gallant sight alarmed them indeed beyond expression. They did not see any end, or even the least suspension of their calamities: All they had hitherto done or suffered was as nothing, and their work was...