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... fide . In their fears , of course , they concluded , that they should be attacked and furrounded by the enemy ; which reafon they quitted the pafs , and fled to the main body in the camp . Immediately Hannibal's light armed troops took ...
... fide . In their fears , of course , they concluded , that they should be attacked and furrounded by the enemy ; which reafon they quitted the pafs , and fled to the main body in the camp . Immediately Hannibal's light armed troops took ...
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... fide he was de- fcended from Alcmæon ; for Dinomache , his mother , was the daughter of Megacles , who was of that line . His father Clinias gained great honor in the fea fight of Ar- temifium , where he fought in a galley fitted out at ...
... fide he was de- fcended from Alcmæon ; for Dinomache , his mother , was the daughter of Megacles , who was of that line . His father Clinias gained great honor in the fea fight of Ar- temifium , where he fought in a galley fitted out at ...
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... fide , his vanity and love of distinction , and led him into vast designs and unfeasonable projects , perfuading him , that as foon as he fhould apply himself to the management of public affairs , he should not only eclipfe the other ...
... fide , his vanity and love of distinction , and led him into vast designs and unfeasonable projects , perfuading him , that as foon as he fhould apply himself to the management of public affairs , he should not only eclipfe the other ...
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... fide , and heard a body of Argives and Mantineans , confifting of a thousand men , declare , that they were will ing to cross the feas , and to run the risk of a foreign war for the fake of Alcibiades , but that if any injury were done ...
... fide , and heard a body of Argives and Mantineans , confifting of a thousand men , declare , that they were will ing to cross the feas , and to run the risk of a foreign war for the fake of Alcibiades , but that if any injury were done ...
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... fide , was under fome fear and con- cern , left , if their republic were deftroyed , he should fall into the hands of the Lacedæmonians who hated him . At that time the whole ftrength of the Athenians lay at Samos . With their ships ...
... fide , was under fome fear and con- cern , left , if their republic were deftroyed , he should fall into the hands of the Lacedæmonians who hated him . At that time the whole ftrength of the Athenians lay at Samos . With their ships ...
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