Studies in HerodotusB. Blackwell, 1923 - 232 páginas |
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accepted Alcmaeonid allies allusions ancient Argive Argos argument Aristophanes Aristotle Asia Minor Athenian Athens attack Attica authority Babylon battle Busolt campaign century B.C. certainly Chersonese Cimon Cleomenes colonies conjecture connection conquest Corinth Ctesias curious Cypselidae Cypselus Darius definite discussed Dorian doubt early Elean Ephorus evidence explanation fact familiar favour fifth century Forsch given gives Greece Greek History Gyges Herodotean Herodotus historian important improbable inscription Ionian Ionic King Lacedaemonians later Lycurgus Lydian Macan mention Messenian Wars Meyer Miletus Miltiades narrative natural obvious oracle passage Paus Pausanias Peloponnese Peloponnesian perhaps Periclean Pericles period Pheidon Philaidae Plataea Plut Plutarch poet political probably Pylian quoted reason reference reject royal Salamis says seems seventh century Sicyon sixth Sparta statement story Strabo suggested supposed theory Thera Thuc Thucydides tradition tyrant Tyrtaeus victory viii whole writes Xerxes Zopyrus καὶ τῶν
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Página 127 - Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Sir Roderick marked, — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Página 221 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Página 201 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 224 - The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air. And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning. The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.
Página 204 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things ; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Página 220 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Página 221 - The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend; That tyrant was Miltiades! O that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind! Such chains as his were sure to bind. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! On Suli's rock and Parga's shore Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there perhaps some seed is sown The Heracleidan blood might own.
Página 218 - To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Página 211 - A phoenix, gaz'd by all, as that sole bird, When, to enshrine his reliques in the Sun's Bright temple, to Egyptian Thebes he flies.
Página 221 - What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid: But somebody or other rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.