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Demosthenes. B. C. 368 their lines , and effects a junction with his allies ; after a short and unimportant campaign he makes an attempt on Corinth , is repulsed by Chabrias , and returns home . Alexander of Macedon is murdered , and ...
Demosthenes. B. C. 368 their lines , and effects a junction with his allies ; after a short and unimportant campaign he makes an attempt on Corinth , is repulsed by Chabrias , and returns home . Alexander of Macedon is murdered , and ...
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... allies , assaults Sparta , but is repulsed . The Athenians send a force of six thousand men to the assistance of the Spartans . They march to Mantinea . Epaminondas , retreating from Laconia , marches to attack Man- tinea . His cavalry ...
... allies , assaults Sparta , but is repulsed . The Athenians send a force of six thousand men to the assistance of the Spartans . They march to Mantinea . Epaminondas , retreating from Laconia , marches to attack Man- tinea . His cavalry ...
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... allies . Chares , Timotheus and Iphicrates command the Athenian forces , but the two latter are recalled on the com- plaint of Chares . The allies ravage Lemnos , Imbrus , and Samos , and levy contribu- tions in the Ægean . Chares , for ...
... allies . Chares , Timotheus and Iphicrates command the Athenian forces , but the two latter are recalled on the com- plaint of Chares . The allies ravage Lemnos , Imbrus , and Samos , and levy contribu- tions in the Ægean . Chares , for ...
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... allies is held , and peace is concluded , on the terms of each party keeping his own possessions ; but the Phocians and Cersobleptes are not named in the treaty . • The ten Athenian ambassadors are sent to Macedonia to receive Philip's ...
... allies is held , and peace is concluded , on the terms of each party keeping his own possessions ; but the Phocians and Cersobleptes are not named in the treaty . • The ten Athenian ambassadors are sent to Macedonia to receive Philip's ...
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... allies of Athens . Philip marches against Amphissa , and defeats Chares , who had been sent to succour the Locrians . After two indecisive battles , the hostile armies meet at Charonea . Philip is at the head of thirty - two thousand ...
... allies of Athens . Philip marches against Amphissa , and defeats Chares , who had been sent to succour the Locrians . After two indecisive battles , the hostile armies meet at Charonea . Philip is at the head of thirty - two thousand ...
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Page 109 - Olynthians he declared, when he was forty furlongs from their city, that there was no alternative, but either they must quit Olynthus or he Macedonia; though before that time, whenever he was accused of such an intent, he took it ill and sent ambassadors to justify himself. Again, he marched...
Page 114 - ... heir to the property which he so dealt with. But if a slave or a spurious child wasted and spoiled what he had no interest in — Heavens! how. much more heinous and hateful would all have pronounced it ! And yet in regard to Philip and his conduct they feel not this, although he is not only no Greek and...
Page 104 - ... may safely address the assembly, though you have been robbed of your dominions. It was not safe at Olynthus to be Philip's advocate, unless the Olynthian...
Page 39 - Impossible is it — impossible, Athenians — to acquire a solid power by injustice and perjury and falsehood. Such things last for once, or for a short period; maybe they blossom fairly with hope; but in time they are discovered and drop away. As a house, a ship, or the like, ought to have the lower parts firmest, so in human conduct, I ween, the principle and foundation should be just and true.