The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East : Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Nide 3M'Dermut & Arden, 1814 |
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admired Agesil Agesilaus Alcibiades allies ambition ancient Antalcidas Arcadians Argives arms army Artaxerxes Asia assembly assistance Athe Athenians Athens Barbarians battle body Boeotian C H A Callicratidas cavalry CHAP citizens coast command conduct Conon cruelty Cyrus dangerous death defeat defend Dercyllidas Diodor disgrace Elians employed enemy engagement Epaminondas expedition favourable fleet force fortune friends garrison glory Grecian Greece Greeks harbours Hellen honour hostile hundred illustrious inhabitants Iphicrates justly King Lacedæmonian Leuctra Lysander Lysias manded Mantinæa ment merit negociation neighbouring nians occasion Olymp Orat peace Pelopidas Peloponnesian Peloponnesus perfidious Persian Pharnabazus Piræus Plato Plut Plutarch prince province rendered republic resentment sailed satrap seized sent seqq Sicily Socrates soldiers Spartan squadron strength success territory Thebans Thebes Theramenes Thessaly thousand Thrasybulus Thucydid tion Tissaphernes treaty troops tyrants valour victory virtue Xenoph Xenophon XXII XXIV XXVIII XXXI XXXII
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Sivu 26 - ... ineffectual, they recurred to violence. Many of the licentious demagogues were assassinated, and four hundred men, chosen from among the people, were ap•pointed to conduct the administration of their country. These were to be men of dignity and opulence in the state, and assembled as often as they thought proper five thousand citizens, whom they judged most worthy of being consulted in the management of publick affairs; and thus was the Athenian democracy subverted, after it had subsisted one...
Sivu 62 - Alcibiades as having ruined the affairs of his country. He had selected, he said, such friends as were the meanest and most worthless of men, and to such improper persons he had committed the command of the fleet, whilst he passed his time .in the effeminate pleasures of Ionia. In this assembly, and on the same day, Alcibiades was accused, and almost unanimously condemned ; and that the affairs of the republic might not again suffer by the abuse of undivided power, they proceeded to elect ten generals....
Sivu 90 - Still, however, they de• fended with vigour their walls and ramparts, patiently endured hardship and hunger, and beheld with obstinate unconcern the affliction of their wives and children. Disease and death now advanced among the unfortunate Athenians with increasing horrour; yet, even amidst this dreadful scene of woe, they punished Archestratus with the utmost severity...
Sivu 492 - No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms!
Sivu 475 - ... theatrical transitions, and the tawdry and glaring melodies (i) in use there, are suited to the perversion of their minds and manners, and let them enjoy them.
Sivu 29 - ... assembly. He began' by lamenting his calamities and accusing his fortune. His banishment, however, though otherwise unfortunate, had procured him, he said, the acquaintance and the friendship of Tissaphernes, who, by his entreaties, had withheld the pay from the Peloponnesians, and would, he doubted not, continue his good offices to the Athenians, supply them with every thing necessary for continuing the war, and even assist them with a Phoenician fleet. These flattering promises raised his credit...
Sivu 48 - Alcibiades determined to wipe off the stain of impiety in return conferred on our ancestors the two most valuable presents which either heaven can bestow, or mankind can receive ; the practice of agriculture, which delivered us from the fierce and precarious manner of life, common to us with wild animals ; and the knowledge of those sacred mysteries which fortify the initiated against the terrors of death, and inspire them with the pleasing hopes of an happy immortality.
Sivu 45 - ... transports of the people, who would have loaded their favourite with honours incompatible with the genius of a free republic, and which might, therefore, have proved dangerous to his future safety.
Sivu 76 - The caufe was then referred to the people, who, as judges of the fact, gave their verdict, and, as judges of the law, paffed their fentence or decree.
Sivu 467 - ... and Ionian seas, the remote coasts of Thrace and Asia, invited the activity of their fleet, which they might now employ in foreign conquests, fearless of domestic envy. It appears that, soon after the death of Epaminondas, Euboea again acknowledged the authority of Athens. The Cyclades and Corcyra courted the friendship of a people capable of interrupting their navigation, and of destroying their commerce. Such multiplied advantages revived the ancient grandeur of Athens, which once more commanded...