The History of Greece, Volume 1

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C. Scribner, 1871 - Greece
 

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Page 129 - ... carried on, and for furnishing sacrifices ; this made a common coinage necessary. The common purse and temple-treasures required administrators, for whose choice it was requisite to assemble, and whose administration of their office had to be watched by a representation of the federated tribes. In case of dispute between the Amphictyones, a judicial authority was wanted to preserve the common peace, or punish its violation in the name of the god.
Page 22 - The winds are the legislators of the weather ; but even they, in these latitudes submit to certain rules, and only rarely rise to the vehemence of desolating hurricanes. Never, except in the short winter season, is there any uncertain irregularity in wind and weather ; the commencement of the fair season — the safe months, as the ancients called it — brings with it an immutable law followed by the winds in the entire Archipelago : every morning the north wind arises from the coasts of Thrace,...
Page 10 - Europe, and yet belongs to the trading towns of the Levant : notwithstanding all changes of political circumstances, Byzantium to this day ranks as the metropolis on either side: and as one swell of the waves rolls from the shore of Ionia up to Salamis, so neither has any mpvement of population ever affected the coast on one side without extending itself to the other.

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