The Tale of the Great Persian War from the Histories of Herodotus

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Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - Всего страниц: 423
 

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Стр. 127 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
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Стр. 276 - BC, we can do so only under the supposition that during the early periods of history the growth of the human mind was more luxuriant than in later times, and that the layers of thought were formed less slowly in the primary than in the tertiary ages of the world.
Стр. 50 - Philippides deliver the message committed to him. And the Spartans wished to help the Athenians, but were unable to give them any present aid, as they did not like to break their established law. It was the ninth day of the month, and they could not march out of Sparta on the ninth, when the moon had not reached the full. So they waited for the full of the moon.
Стр. 34 - The sun, the soil, but not the slave, the same; Unchanged in all except its foreign lord; Preserves alike its bounds and boundless fame The Battle-field, where Persia's victim horde First bow'd beneath the brunt of Hellas...
Стр. 23 - Seek out that thing for the loss of which thy soul ) would most be grieved, and cast it away, so that it may never come to mortal hand. And if hereafter thy good fortune be not mixed with pain, remedy it in the manner which I have set before thee.
Стр. 54 - Sardeis ; but when he heard the tale of the battle of Marathon, he was much more wroth and desired yet more eagerly to march against Hellas. Straightway he sent heralds to all the cities, and bade them make ready an army, and to furnish much more than they had done before, both ships and horses and corn ; and while the heralds were going round, all Asia was shaken for three years ; but in the fourth year the Egyptians, who had been made slaves by Kambyses, rebelled...
Стр. 62 - For let me not be thought the child of Darius, the son of Hystaspes, the son of Arsames, the son of Ariaramnes, the son of Teispes, the son of Cyrus, the son of Cambyses, the son of Teispes, the son of Achaemenes, if I take not vengeance on the Athenians.
Стр. 373 - His behavior in the expedition of Paros was as reprehensible as at Marathon it had been meritorious, and the one succeeded immediately after the other : what else could ensue except an entire revolution in the Athenian feelings ? He had employed his prodigious ascendency over their minds to induce them to follow him without knowing whither, in the confidence of an unknown booty...
Стр. 178 - Persians who are with us at this banquet, and the army which we left encamped on the river's bank. Yet a little while, and of all these but a very few shall remain alive." As the Persian said this, he wept bitterly ; and Thersander marvelled at him and answered, " Is it not right that Mardonius should hear this, and the Persians who are of weight with him ? " But the other replied, " 0 friend, that which Heaven is bringing to pass it is impossible for man to turn aside ; for none will believe though...

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