Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
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... Sparta , as we have related in the Life of Lyfander . In the accounts for this campaign Pericles put down ten talents laid out for a neceffary use , and the people This wolf is faid to have been confecrated and placed by the fide of the ...
... Sparta , as we have related in the Life of Lyfander . In the accounts for this campaign Pericles put down ten talents laid out for a neceffary use , and the people This wolf is faid to have been confecrated and placed by the fide of the ...
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... Sparta , with which he gained all the magiftracy , and kept them from acts of hoftility ; not that he purchased peace with the money , but only gained time , that he might have leifure to make prepa- rations to carry on the war ...
... Sparta , with which he gained all the magiftracy , and kept them from acts of hoftility ; not that he purchased peace with the money , but only gained time , that he might have leifure to make prepa- rations to carry on the war ...
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... Spartans , and he now furnished D 4 his † This war was commenced about the little territory of Epi- damnum , a city in Macedonia , founded by the Corcyrians There feems to be very little colour for this hard affertion . Thucydides fays ...
... Spartans , and he now furnished D 4 his † This war was commenced about the little territory of Epi- damnum , a city in Macedonia , founded by the Corcyrians There feems to be very little colour for this hard affertion . Thucydides fays ...
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... Spartans . Nay , by all imaginable methods he endeavoured to hinder the advancement of that fa- mily , reprefenting the fons of Cimon , as by their very names not genuine Athenians , but ftrangers and aliens , one of them being called ...
... Spartans . Nay , by all imaginable methods he endeavoured to hinder the advancement of that fa- mily , reprefenting the fons of Cimon , as by their very names not genuine Athenians , but ftrangers and aliens , one of them being called ...
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... Sparta , provided the Spar- tans would also leave all ftates free who were under their dominion ; and that future difputes fhould be fubmitted to ar- bitration . In cafe thefe offers fhould not prevail , he advised them to hazard a war ...
... Sparta , provided the Spar- tans would also leave all ftates free who were under their dominion ; and that future difputes fhould be fubmitted to ar- bitration . In cafe thefe offers fhould not prevail , he advised them to hazard a war ...
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