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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... on extraordinary occafions . They fent it , for inftance , for a general whom they wanted to call to account , or with facrifices to Apollo , or fome other Deity . · : which liftens to the reins no more , But in 10 PLUTA RC HIS LIVE S.
... on extraordinary occafions . They fent it , for inftance , for a general whom they wanted to call to account , or with facrifices to Apollo , or fome other Deity . · : which liftens to the reins no more , But in 10 PLUTA RC HIS LIVE S.
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... fent with this propofal to the It was customary among the ancients for a perfon who was determined to put an end to his life to cover up his head , whether he devoted himself to death for the fervice of his country , or being weary of ...
... fent with this propofal to the It was customary among the ancients for a perfon who was determined to put an end to his life to cover up his head , whether he devoted himself to death for the fervice of his country , or being weary of ...
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... fent ten talents every year to 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 ...
... fent ten talents every year to 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 ...
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... fent them to Lemnos . Each of thefe hoftages , we are told , offered him a talent for his ranfom and those that were defirous to prevent the fettling of a democracy among them , would have given him much more . + Piffuthnes the Perfian ...
... fent them to Lemnos . Each of thefe hoftages , we are told , offered him a talent for his ranfom and those that were defirous to prevent the fettling of a democracy among them , would have given him much more . + Piffuthnes the Perfian ...
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... fent Lacedæmoni- us to the fon of Cimon with ten fhips only , as if he defigned nothing more than to difgrace him . A mutual regard and friendship fubfifted between Ci- mon's family and the Spartans , and he now furnished D 4 his † This ...
... fent Lacedæmoni- us to the fon of Cimon with ten fhips only , as if he defigned nothing more than to difgrace him . A mutual regard and friendship fubfifted between Ci- mon's family and the Spartans , and he now furnished D 4 his † This ...
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