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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... arms , and fond- ly careffing them , he asked , " Whe- " ther the women in their country never bore any children ; " thus reproving with a proper severity those who lavish upon brutes that natural tenderness which is due only to mankind ...
... arms , and fond- ly careffing them , he asked , " Whe- " ther the women in their country never bore any children ; " thus reproving with a proper severity those who lavish upon brutes that natural tenderness which is due only to mankind ...
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... arms drove the inhabitants into their walled towns , all but the Sicyonians who made head against him at Nemea , and were defeated in a pitched battle ; in memory of which victory he erected a trophy . From Achaia , a confederate State ...
... arms drove the inhabitants into their walled towns , all but the Sicyonians who made head against him at Nemea , and were defeated in a pitched battle ; in memory of which victory he erected a trophy . From Achaia , a confederate State ...
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... arms , had restored the temple to the citizens of Delphi , which had been feized by the Phocians , Pericles , immediately after the departure of the Lacedaemonians , marched thither and put it into the hands of the Phocians again . And ...
... arms , had restored the temple to the citizens of Delphi , which had been feized by the Phocians , Pericles , immediately after the departure of the Lacedaemonians , marched thither and put it into the hands of the Phocians again . And ...
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... arms against the revolters , and paffing over into Euboea with fifty fhips and five thousand men , he reduced the cities . He ex- pelled the Hippobotae , perfons distinguished by their opulence and authority among the Chalcidians ; and ...
... arms against the revolters , and paffing over into Euboea with fifty fhips and five thousand men , he reduced the cities . He ex- pelled the Hippobotae , perfons distinguished by their opulence and authority among the Chalcidians ; and ...
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... arms , and refer the decifion of the difpute to them : but the Samians refused to comply with this demand . Pericles therefore , failed with a fleet to Samos , and abolished the oligarchical form government . He then took fifty of the ...
... arms , and refer the decifion of the difpute to them : but the Samians refused to comply with this demand . Pericles therefore , failed with a fleet to Samos , and abolished the oligarchical form government . He then took fifty of the ...
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