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... fight at Ilion ; but it is absurd to regard the land of the Phthiotic chieftain as the original seat of the Hellenic people , and all attempts to determine the course of the migrations which brought about the geographical distribution ...
... fight at Ilion ; but it is absurd to regard the land of the Phthiotic chieftain as the original seat of the Hellenic people , and all attempts to determine the course of the migrations which brought about the geographical distribution ...
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... fight in a quarrel which is not his own ; that his wrath is roused because he is robbed of the maiden Briseis ; that henceforth he takes no part in the strife until his friend Patroklos has been slain ; and that then he puts on the new ...
... fight in a quarrel which is not his own ; that his wrath is roused because he is robbed of the maiden Briseis ; that henceforth he takes no part in the strife until his friend Patroklos has been slain ; and that then he puts on the new ...
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... fight owing to failure of supplies in the stronghold , he , his fellow generals , and the chief men of the Messenians were all slain , and that five months later the garrison abandoned Ithômê.1 So far as we may see , there was no more ...
... fight owing to failure of supplies in the stronghold , he , his fellow generals , and the chief men of the Messenians were all slain , and that five months later the garrison abandoned Ithômê.1 So far as we may see , there was no more ...
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... fight at Salamis , left Gelon by the utter defeat of Hamilkar master , for the time , of all Sicily . Diodoros , who like Herodotos raised the Carthaginian army to 300,000 , kills off half that number on the field of Himera where ...
... fight at Salamis , left Gelon by the utter defeat of Hamilkar master , for the time , of all Sicily . Diodoros , who like Herodotos raised the Carthaginian army to 300,000 , kills off half that number on the field of Himera where ...
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... fight out the quarrel or to lay it aside . The paying of the penal- He sent therefore , so the story goes on to tell us ( and it is useless to give it in any other words than those of the old historian ) , to Ammon in Libya , to ...
... fight out the quarrel or to lay it aside . The paying of the penal- He sent therefore , so the story goes on to tell us ( and it is useless to give it in any other words than those of the old historian ) , to Ammon in Libya , to ...
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