Herodotus, Volumen1L. Hansard & Sons, 1830 |
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... forces on bridges , which he there found constructed ; although the Greeks in general assert , that this service was rendered him by Thales the Milesian . Whilst Croesus was hesitating over what part of the river he should attempt a ...
... forces on bridges , which he there found constructed ; although the Greeks in general assert , that this service was rendered him by Thales the Milesian . Whilst Croesus was hesitating over what part of the river he should attempt a ...
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... forces ; he conceived it therefore advisable to advance with all imaginable expedition to Sardis , before the Lydian forces could be again collected . The measure was no sooner concerted than executed ; and conduct- ing his army ...
... forces ; he conceived it therefore advisable to advance with all imaginable expedition to Sardis , before the Lydian forces could be again collected . The measure was no sooner concerted than executed ; and conduct- ing his army ...
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... forces , he commanded that no quarter should be granted to the Lydians , but that whoever resisted should be put to death , Croesus himself excepted , who , whatever op - ed ; but the parties coming to a conference , it position he ...
... forces , he commanded that no quarter should be granted to the Lydians , but that whoever resisted should be put to death , Croesus himself excepted , who , whatever op - ed ; but the parties coming to a conference , it position he ...
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... forces , and making his approach by night , took the city by surprise . Croesus still remain- ing in possession of ... force assail'd his father's sacred life , Breaks silence , and with filial duty warm , Bids thee revere her parent's ...
... forces , and making his approach by night , took the city by surprise . Croesus still remain- ing in possession of ... force assail'd his father's sacred life , Breaks silence , and with filial duty warm , Bids thee revere her parent's ...
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... forces , he commanded that no quarter should be granted to the Lydians , but that whoever resisted should be put to death , Croesus himself excepted , who , whatever op - ed ; but the parties coming to a conference , it position he ...
... forces , he commanded that no quarter should be granted to the Lydians , but that whoever resisted should be put to death , Croesus himself excepted , who , whatever op - ed ; but the parties coming to a conference , it position he ...
Términos y frases comunes
Ægina affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient Apollo appears Argives Aristagoras army arrived Asia assert Astyages Athenæus Athenians Athens attack authority Barbarians battle betwixt body called Cambyses chap Cleomenes commanded conduct Croesus custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Delphi Demaratus Diodorus Diodorus Siculus divine Egypt Egyptians enemy engaged esteemed father favour fleet gods gold Grecian Greece Greeks Hellespont Hercules Herodotus Homer honour horse hundred informed inhabitants Ionians island Jupiter king Lacedæmonians land Larcher Lydians manner Mardonius Medes mentioned Milesians Miletus nations Nile observed occasion opinion oracle particular passage passed Pausanias Peloponnese Persians person Phenicians Phoceans Pliny Plutarch possessed present priests prince reader reign remarks replied river sacred sacrifice Salamis Samians Samos Sardis says Scythians seems sent Siculus soon Sparta speak Strabo temple Themistocles thing thousand tion took troops vessels victory whilst women word Xerxes
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Página 230 - And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Página 315 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 9 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 128 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
Página 127 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Página 79 - In the vicinity of Thebes there are also sacred serpents," not at all troublesome to men : they are very small, but have two horns on the top of the head. When they die, they are buried in the temple of Jupiter, to whom they are said to belong.
Página 153 - Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack.
Página 40 - The earth of the trench was first of all laid in heaps, and when a sufficient quantity was obtained, made into square bricks, and baked in a furnace. They used as cement a composition of heated bitumen, which, mixed with the tops of reeds, was placed between every thirtieth course of bricks.
Página 171 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day ; the loss of children...
Página 243 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant ; it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighbourhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.