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... Lacedæmonians , which made him un- willing to give up the leaft point to them . I do not fup- pofe , that Fabius Maximus would have given up any point to the Carthaginians , but that he would generously have run the last risk to ...
... Lacedæmonians , which made him un- willing to give up the leaft point to them . I do not fup- pofe , that Fabius Maximus would have given up any point to the Carthaginians , but that he would generously have run the last risk to ...
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... Lacedæmonians , and he had taken particular care of such of them as were made prif- oners at Pylos ; yet when they found , that it was chiefly by the means of Nicias that they obtained a peace and re- covered the captives , their ...
... Lacedæmonians , and he had taken particular care of such of them as were made prif- oners at Pylos ; yet when they found , that it was chiefly by the means of Nicias that they obtained a peace and re- covered the captives , their ...
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... Lacedæmonians . He farther afferted , that though Nicias had an intereft with the Lacedæmonians , he would not make use of it to prevent their entering into the confede- racy with the Boeotians and Corinthians ; but that when an ...
... Lacedæmonians . He farther afferted , that though Nicias had an intereft with the Lacedæmonians , he would not make use of it to prevent their entering into the confede- racy with the Boeotians and Corinthians ; but that when an ...
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... Lacedæmonians at Mantinea , and removed to fo great a distance from Athens the fcene of war ; by which the Lacedæmonians , if victorious , could gain no great advantage , whereas a mifcarriage would have risked the very being of their ...
... Lacedæmonians at Mantinea , and removed to fo great a distance from Athens the fcene of war ; by which the Lacedæmonians , if victorious , could gain no great advantage , whereas a mifcarriage would have risked the very being of their ...
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... Lacedæmonians will begin with the " head , and do it all at once . " He exhorted the Atheni- ans to affert the empire of the land as well as of the fea ; and was ever putting the young warriors in mind to fhow by their deeds that they ...
... Lacedæmonians will begin with the " head , and do it all at once . " He exhorted the Atheni- ans to affert the empire of the land as well as of the fea ; and was ever putting the young warriors in mind to fhow by their deeds that they ...
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