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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... fecond year of the eighty- third Olympiad , four hundred and forty - five years before the Chriftian Era , and more than twenty - years before the death of Pericles . tories of Megara with an hundred ships of war , 28 PLUTARCH'S LIVES .
... fecond year of the eighty- third Olympiad , four hundred and forty - five years before the Chriftian Era , and more than twenty - years before the death of Pericles . tories of Megara with an hundred ships of war , 28 PLUTARCH'S LIVES .
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... fecond book of Thucydides . They were driven out of it by Mégabyzus , Artaxerxes's lieutenant , in the fir year of the eightieth Olympiad . And it was only in the laft year of the eighty - firft Olympiad , that Pericles made that ...
... fecond book of Thucydides . They were driven out of it by Mégabyzus , Artaxerxes's lieutenant , in the fir year of the eightieth Olympiad . And it was only in the laft year of the eighty - firft Olympiad , that Pericles made that ...
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... point would have involved the Athe- nians But this fleet , which confifted of twenty fhips , prevented a fecond engagement , for which they were preparing . nians in war , if they could have been perfuaded 40 PLUTARCH'S LIVES .
... point would have involved the Athe- nians But this fleet , which confifted of twenty fhips , prevented a fecond engagement , for which they were preparing . nians in war , if they could have been perfuaded 40 PLUTARCH'S LIVES .
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... fecond year of the ninety - third Olympiad , twenty - four years after the death of Pericles . Socrates the philofopher was at that time one of the Prytanes , and refolutely refufed to do his office . And a little while after the ...
... fecond year of the ninety - third Olympiad , twenty - four years after the death of Pericles . Socrates the philofopher was at that time one of the Prytanes , and refolutely refufed to do his office . And a little while after the ...
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... fecond and third to Minucius ; and the confederate forces were likewise equally divided . Minucius valued himself highly upon this , that the power of the greatest and most arbitrary office in the state was controuled and reduced for ...
... fecond and third to Minucius ; and the confederate forces were likewise equally divided . Minucius valued himself highly upon this , that the power of the greatest and most arbitrary office in the state was controuled and reduced for ...
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