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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... thousand men to the Cherfonefus , five hundred to Naxos , two hundred and fifty to An- dros , a thousand into the country of the Bifaltæ in Thrace , and others into Italy , who fettled in Sy- baris , and changed its name to Thurii ...
... thousand men to the Cherfonefus , five hundred to Naxos , two hundred and fifty to An- dros , a thousand into the country of the Bifaltæ in Thrace , and others into Italy , who fettled in Sy- baris , and changed its name to Thurii ...
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... share of the public money , nor yet had they it to fup- port * The Parthenon , or Temple of Minerva , is faid to have coft a thousand talents . port them in idleness . By the constructing of great 18 : PLUTARCH'S LIVES .
... share of the public money , nor yet had they it to fup- port * The Parthenon , or Temple of Minerva , is faid to have coft a thousand talents . port them in idleness . By the constructing of great 18 : PLUTARCH'S LIVES .
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... thousand feven hun- dred talents , ( or one million eight hundred feventy - five thou fand nine hundred and fifty pounds fterling , of which , Pericles had laid out in those public buildings , three thousand feven hundred talents . It ...
... thousand feven hun- dred talents , ( or one million eight hundred feventy - five thou fand nine hundred and fifty pounds fterling , of which , Pericles had laid out in those public buildings , three thousand feven hundred talents . It ...
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... thousand , to go volunteers in that expedition , he addreffed him in public and tried to divert him from it , making ufe , among the reft , of thofe well - known words , " if you regard not the opinion of Pericles , yet wait at least ...
... thousand , to go volunteers in that expedition , he addreffed him in public and tried to divert him from it , making ufe , among the reft , of thofe well - known words , " if you regard not the opinion of Pericles , yet wait at least ...
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... thousand men , he reduced the cities . He ex- pelled the Hippobotae , perfons distinguished by their opulence and authority among the Chalcidians ; and having exterminated all the Heftiaeans , he gave their city to a colony of Athenians ...
... thousand men , he reduced the cities . He ex- pelled the Hippobotae , perfons distinguished by their opulence and authority among the Chalcidians ; and having exterminated all the Heftiaeans , he gave their city to a colony of Athenians ...
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