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... For that battle was fought against the Lacedæmonians , and this for them . The action here spoken of was probably about the third year of the ninety - eighth Olympiad . with a spear , and in the arm with a PELOPIDAS . 5.
... For that battle was fought against the Lacedæmonians , and this for them . The action here spoken of was probably about the third year of the ninety - eighth Olympiad . with a spear , and in the arm with a PELOPIDAS . 5.
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... against Olynthus , when Leonti- das , or Leontiades , one of the two polemarchs , betrayed to him the town and citadel of Thebes . This happened in the third year of the ninety - ninth Olympiad , three - hundred and feventy - four years ...
... against Olynthus , when Leonti- das , or Leontiades , one of the two polemarchs , betrayed to him the town and citadel of Thebes . This happened in the third year of the ninety - ninth Olympiad , three - hundred and feventy - four years ...
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... against their lives . For this purpose he employed certain un- known affaffins , who took off Androclides ; but all the reft escaped . Letters were alfo fent to the Athenians from Sparta , infifting that they should not harbour or ...
... against their lives . For this purpose he employed certain un- known affaffins , who took off Androclides ; but all the reft escaped . Letters were alfo fent to the Athenians from Sparta , infifting that they should not harbour or ...
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... against Leontidas and Hypates † , There appears no neceflity for this artifice ; and indeed Plutarch , in his treatise concerning the genius of Socrates , fays , that Charon came back to the little band of patriots with a pleasant ...
... against Leontidas and Hypates † , There appears no neceflity for this artifice ; and indeed Plutarch , in his treatise concerning the genius of Socrates , fays , that Charon came back to the little band of patriots with a pleasant ...
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... against the Athenians , and confider- ing them as traitors , would lend them no manner of as- fiftance . " Sphodrias , fuffering himself at laft to be perfuaded , marched into Attica by night , and advanced as far as This is more ...
... against the Athenians , and confider- ing them as traitors , would lend them no manner of as- fiftance . " Sphodrias , fuffering himself at laft to be perfuaded , marched into Attica by night , and advanced as far as This is more ...
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