Greek History from Themistocles to Alexander: In a Series of Lives from PlutarchLongmans, Green, and Company, 1870 |
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... side , he is said to have been base - born . I am not of the noble Grecian race , I'm poor Abrotonon , and born in Thrace ; Let the Greek women scorn me , if they please , I was the mother of Themistocles . Though Phanias says that his ...
... side , he is said to have been base - born . I am not of the noble Grecian race , I'm poor Abrotonon , and born in Thrace ; Let the Greek women scorn me , if they please , I was the mother of Themistocles . Though Phanias says that his ...
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... side , into sudden and violent courses , and very often to break away and determine upon the worst ; as he ... sides , and were rivals in politics . Though certainly the dissimilarity of their lives and manners must be supposed to have ...
... side , into sudden and violent courses , and very often to break away and determine upon the worst ; as he ... sides , and were rivals in politics . Though certainly the dissimilarity of their lives and manners must be supposed to have ...
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... side till he came to the island of Salamis , where he fainted away and died , and that spot in the island , which is still called the Dog's Grave , is said to be his . 11 Among the great actions of Themistocles at this crisis , the ...
... side till he came to the island of Salamis , where he fainted away and died , and that spot in the island , which is still called the Dog's Grave , is said to be his . 11 Among the great actions of Themistocles at this crisis , the ...
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... side , with all his forces united , then the good reasons of Themistocles were soon forgotten , and the Pelopon- nesians cast their eyes again towards the Isthmus , and took it very ill if any one spoke against their returning home ...
... side , with all his forces united , then the good reasons of Themistocles were soon forgotten , and the Pelopon- nesians cast their eyes again towards the Isthmus , and took it very ill if any one spoke against their returning home ...
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... sides which there was discovered and confiscated to the value of a hundred talents , as Theopompus writes ; Theophrastus says eighty ; though Themistocles was never worth three talents before he was concerned in public affairs . When he ...
... sides which there was discovered and confiscated to the value of a hundred talents , as Theopompus writes ; Theophrastus says eighty ; though Themistocles was never worth three talents before he was concerned in public affairs . When he ...
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