 | World history - 1747 - 542 pages
...taken from the Perfians the gold mines of Thrace. Clmon made a defence fuitable to his character, he faid that he had profecuted to the utmoft of his power...to the ftate of Athens ; but that it was true, he 0 PLUTARCH, ubi fupra. & in vit. Ciroonis. DIODOR. SICUL. lib. xi. man. that he wns unnble to make... | |
 | Plutarch - Greece - 1770 - 518 pages
...war to theutmoft of his power againft theThracians and their other enemies ; but that he had made no inroads into Macedonia, becaufe he did not conceive that he was to act as a public enemy to mankind. PER 4 C t £ S. i$ Pericles had accwfedas accomplices in his pretended crime, fell honourably that... | |
 | William Cooke - Classical biography - 1773 - 232 pages
...fuitable to his character. He faid that " he had profecuted to the utmoft of his. " power •*• pou-er the war againft the Thracians, and other -" enemies...that it was *' true, he had not made any inroads into Mace'" donta ; becaufe he did not conceive that he was " to act as a public enemy to mankind ; and... | |
 | Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne - Greece - 1794 - 410 pages
...war to the utmoft of his power againft the Yhracians and their other enemies; but that he had made no inroads into Macedonia, becaufe he did not conceive that he was to act as a public enemy to mankind. an exile. This feems to have been the caufe that Pericles exerted himfelf in a particular manner in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...utmost of his power he had prosecuted the war against the Thracians, and other enemies of the state of Athens; but that, it was true, he had not made any inroads into Macedonia, because he did not imagine he was to art as a public enemy of mankind, and because he wustruck with... | |
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he had profecuted to the utmoft of his. " power •*• pou-er the war againft the Thracians, and other -" enemies to the ftate of Athens. But that it was *' true, he had not made any inroads into Mace... 