A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great, Volume 7J. Murray, 1869 - Greece |
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Alkibiadês allies Anapus Andokidês Argeians armament army arrival assembly Astyochus Athe Athenian fleet Athenian triremes Athens attack Attica battle blockading capture cavalry Chalkideus Chian Chios citizens cliff command Corinthian counter-wall cusans defeat Dekeleia democracy Demos Demosthenês despatch Diodor enemy envoys Epipolæ Eurymedon expedition farther force fortified Four Hundred garrison Grecian Greeks Gylippus harbour Hellespont Hermæ Hermokratês hoplites island Katana Lacedæmonians Lamachus Lesbos ment Milêtus Mindarus naval nians Nikias oligarchical Orat Ortygia party Peiræus Peisander Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pharnabazus Phrynichus Plutarch present prisoners reinforcements revolt sailed Samos satrap seamen sect sent ships Sicilian Sicily side siege Sikel Sparta squadron station Syra Syracusans Syracuse Theramenês Thucyd Thucydidês tion Tissaphernês triremes troops victory viii wall words Xenoph ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι ἐν ἐπὶ ἐς καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 5 - The religious feeling of the Greeks considered the god to be planted or domiciliated where his statue stood, so that the companionship, sympathy, and guardianship of Hermes became associated with most of the manifestations of conjunct life at Athens, political, social, commercial, or gymnastic.
Page 54 - Parliament, judges, juries, witnesses, prosecutors, have all their respective, though certainly not equal, shares. Witnesses, of such a character as not to deserve credit in the most trifling cause, upon the most immaterial facts, gave evidence so incredible, or, to speak more properly, so impossible to be true, that it ought not to have been believed if it had come from the mouth of Cato ; and upon such evidence, from such witnesses, were innocent men condemned to death and executed.
Page 186 - Sicily, it is not the less incontestable that, first, the failure of the enterprise, next, the destruction of the armament, is to be traced distinctly to his lamentable misjudgment. Sometimes petty trifling, sometimes apathy and inaction, sometimes presumptuous neglect, sometimes obstinate , blindness even to urgent and obvious necessities, one or other of these, his sad mental defects, will be found operative at every step, whereby this fated armament sinks down from exuberant efficiency into the...
Page 54 - Prosecutors, whether attorneys and solicitorsgeneral, or managers of impeachment, acted with the fury which in such circumstances might be expected ; juries partook, naturally enough, of the national ferment ; and judges, whose duty it was to guard them against such impressions, were scandalously active in confirming them in their prejudices and inflaming their passions.
Page 7 - ... the porticos, were robbed of their divine protectors ; and what was worse still, that these protectors, having been grossly insulted, carried away with them alienated sentiments — wrathful and vindictive, instead of tutelary and sympathising.
Page 4 - After between two and three months of active preparations, the expedition was almost ready to start, when an event happened which fatally poisoned the prevalent cheerfulness of the city. This was the mutilation of the Hermae, one of the most extraordinary events in all Grecian history. The Hermse, or half-statues of the god Hermes, were blocks of marble about the height of the human figure.
Page 424 - ... into common practice, and grown into great prescriptive reverence), which peremptorily forbade any such collective trial or sentence, and directed that a separate judicial vote should in all cases be taken for or against each accused party.
Page 177 - Gylippus sent them a herald, with a proclamation inviting all the islanders among them to come forth from the rest, and promising them freedom if they did so. The inhabitants of some cities, yet not many — a fact much to their honour — availed themselves of this offer and surrendered. Presently however a larger negotiation was opened, which ended by the entire division capitulating upon terms, and giving up their arms. Gylippus and the Syracusans engaged that the lives of all should be spared,...
Page 393 - Reciprocity of dealing is absolutely essential to constant moral observance, either public or private ; and doubtless Kallikratidas felt a well-grounded confidence that two or three conspicuous examples would sensibly modify the future practice on both sides. But some one must begin by setting such examples, and the man who does begin — having a position which gives reasonable chance that others will follow — is the hero. An admiral like Lysander would not only...