History of Greece, Volume 5Harper, 1856 |
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¹ Herodot Ægean Ægina Æginetans afterwards allies appears archons Areopagus Aristeidês army Asôpus Athenian Athens attack Attica battle battle of Salamis Boeotia citizens coast command confederacy Corinthians defeat defence Demosthenês despot dikasteries dikasts Diodor doubtless enemy envoys Ephialtês ephors Eschylus Euboea Eurybiadês farther force Gelo Grecian Greece Greeks Hellenic Hellespont Herodot Hiero hoplites hundred invasion island Isthmus Kimon king Lacedæmonians land-force latter Leonidas Leotychidês Mardonius maritime Megara monarch nians orators parties passed Pausanias Peiræus Peloponnesian Peloponnesian war Peloponnesus Periklês Persian Persian fleet Phenicians Phocians Pindar Platea Plutarch political probably respecting retreat Salamis ships slain Spartan Syracuse Theban Themistoklês Thermopyla Thessaly thousand Thucyd Thucydidês tion town triremes troops victory viii Xenophon Xerxes γὰρ δὲ ἐν ἐς καὶ κατὰ μὲν οἱ οὐ οὐκ περὶ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῶν ὑπὸ ὡς
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Pagina 104 - Spartans, without having been prepared for it by the same elaborate and iron discipline. While this inscription was intended as a general commemoration of the exploit, there was another near it, alike simple and impressive, destined for the Spartan dead separately : " Stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians, that we lie here, in obedience to their orders.
Pagina 50 - If the Athenians were wise, they would cast both of us into the barathrum." Under such circumstances, it is not too much to say that the peace of the country was preserved mainly by the institution called Ostracism, of which so much has been said in the preceding volume.
Pagina 17 - the force of momentary passion will often suffice to supersede the acquired habit, and even an intelligent man may be impelled in a moment of agonizing pain to kick or beat the lifeless object from which he has suffered," In such matters, the savage mind well represents the childish stage.
Pagina 385 - Taking the general working of the dikasteries, we shall find that they are nothing but jury-trial applied on a scale broad, systematic, unaided, and uncontrolled, beyond all other historical experience; and that they therefore exhibit in exaggerated proportions both the excellences and the defects characteristic of the jury system, as compared with decision by trained and professional judges.
Pagina 23 - Greek boatmen of the strength and uncertain direction of the currents around Mount Athos, and of the gales and high seas to which the vicinity of the mountain is subject during half the year, and which are rendered more formidable by the deficiency of harbours in the Gulf of Orfana...
Pagina 113 - Whether this be a remark really delivered, or a dramatic illustration imagined by some contemporary of Herodotus, it is not the less interesting as bringing to view a characteristic of Hellenic life, which contrasts not merely with the manners of contemporary Orientals, but even with those...
Pagina 285 - Themistokles, am come to thee, having done to thy house more mischief than any other Greek, as long as I was compelled in my own defence to resist the attack of thy father, — but having also done him yet greater good, when I ' could do so with safety to myself, and when his retreat was 1 Diodor.
Pagina 23 - ... such is the fear entertained by the Greek boatmen of the strength and uncertain direction of the currents around Mount Athos, and of the gales and high seas to which the vicinity of the mountain is subject during half the year, and which are rendered more formidable by the deficiency of...
Pagina 207 - Phenicians and Greeks in Sicily, which, like the struggles between the Saracens and the Normans in the eleventh and twelfth centuries after the Christian era, were destined to determine whether the island should be' a part of Africa or a part of Europe, — and which were only terminated, after the lapse of three centuries, by the absorption of both into the vast bosom of Rome.
Pagina 374 - Nomothetae afforded much greater security than the public assembly for a proper decision. That security depended, upon the same principle as we see to pervade all the constitutional arrangements of Athens — upon a fraction of the people casually taken, but sufficiently numerous to have the same interest with the whole — not permanent, but delegated for the occasion — assembled under a solemn sanction, and furnished with a full exposition of both sides of the case.