A Source Book of Greek HistoryD. C. Heath & Company, 1907 - 370 sider |
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Achæans Achaians acropolis Agesilaus Alexander Alexander's allies amphictyonic Apollo Argives arms army Arrian assembly Athenians Athens attack Attica barbarians battle body brought called cavalry chariot citizens colonies command council Darius dead death deed Delphi Demosthenes enemy ephors fell fight fleet force gave goddess gods gold Greece Greek guard Gylippus hand harbor hath Hellas Hellenes herald Herodotus Hesiod honor horses hundred Iliad infantry Ionians island king Lacedemon Lacedemonians land lived Lycurgus Macedonians Mardonius Nicias night Odyssey Olympiad oracle Pausanias peace Peloponnesians Peloponnesus Persians phalanx Piræus Pisistratus polemarch Polybius Pylos Pythian QUESTIONS rest river round sacrifice sail sent shield ships Sicily side soldiers sources spake Spartans stadia Strabo Syracusans temple Thebans Thebes thee things thou Thucydides tion Tiribazus took triremes troops Tyrians vessels victory wall whole wing words Xenophon Xerxes Zeus
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Side 180 - While we are thus unconstrained in our private intercourse, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts ; we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for authority and for the laws...
Side 180 - But before I praise the dead, I should like to point out by what principles of action we rose to power, and under what institutions and through what manner of life our empire became great.
Side 190 - ... held in honor? The pleasure of the moment, and any sort of thing which conduced to it, took the place both of honor and of expediency. No fear of God or law of man deterred a criminal. Those who saw all perishing alike, thought that the worship or neglect of the gods made no difference. For...
Side 6 - Yea of a surety I know this in heart and soul ; the day shall come for holy Ilios to be laid low, and Priam and the folk of Priam of the good ashen spear.
Side 190 - There were other and worse forms of lawlessness which the plague introduced at Athens. Men who had hitherto concealed what they took pleasure in, now grew bolder. For, seeing the sudden change, — how the rich died in a moment, and those who had nothing immediately inherited their property, — they reflected that life and riches were alike transitory, and they resolved to enjoy themselves while they could, and to think only of pleasure.
Side 3 - The fruit of these trees never perisheth neither faileth, winter or summer, enduring through all the year. Evermore the West Wind blowing brings some fruits to birth and ripens others. Pear upon pear waxes old, and apple on apple, yea and cluster ripens upon cluster of the grape, and fig upon fig.
Side 3 - Pear upon pear waxes old, and apple on apple, yea and cluster ripens upon cluster of the grape, and fig upon fig. There too hath he a fruitful vineyard planted, whereof the one part is being dried by the heat, a sunny plot on level ground, while other grapes men are gathering, and yet others they are treading in the wine-press. In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast the blossom, and others there be that are growing black to vintaging. There too skirting the furthest line, are all manner...
Side 6 - Priam of the good ashen spear. Yet doth the anguish of the Trojans hereafter not so much trouble me, neither Hekabe's own, neither King Priam's, neither my brethren's, the many and brave that shall fall in the dust before their foemen, as doth...
Side 238 - ... possible, so long already was the list of victims daily perishing from starvation. On the day following, the ambassadors delivered their report, stating the terms upon which the Lacedaemonians were willing to make peace. Theramenes acted as spokesman, insisting that they ought to obey the Lacedaemonians and pull down the walls. A small minority raised their voice in opposition, but the majority were strongly in favor of the proposition, and the resolution was passed to accept the peace.
Side 19 - Kronion spake, and nodded his dark brow, and the ambrosial locks waved from the king's immortal head ; and he made great Olympus quake.
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Syllabus for the History of Civilization: Rev. Ed Witt Bowden,Roy Franklin Nichols Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1930 |