The History of Greece, Bind 5Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 |
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Agesilaus Alexander alliance allies Amphipolis Amyntas ancient appears Arcadians Archidamus Argives army assembly Athenian Athens Baotian battle of Leuctra Boeotia Bootarch Cadmea cavalry Chabrias CHAP citizens Cleombrotus command confederacy conjecture Corcyra Corinth death decree Demosthenes Diodorus doubt Eleans embassy enemy enemy's envoys Epaminondas event exiles expedition favour force galleys garrison Greece Greek harmost honour hostile invasion Iphicrates Isocrates Jason king Lacedæmonian Lachmann Laconia Macedonia Mantinea Megalopolis ment mercenaries Messene Messenians Mnasippus occasion Olynthians Olynthus orator party Pausanias Peace of Antalcidas Pelopidas Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Perdiccas perhaps Persian Pheræ Philip Phlius Phocians Phoebidas Platea Plut Plutarch probably Rehdantz retreat seems sent Sicyon Sievers soon Sparta Spartan government Sphodrias succours suppose Tegea territory Theban Thebes Thespiæ Thessalians Thessaly Timotheus tion took towns treaty troops victory Xenophon XLII XXXIX XXXVIII δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ περὶ τὰς τὴν τῆς τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῶν СНАР
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Side 224 - His own physical and mental qualifications for the station which he filled and the career of conquest which he followed, were of the highest order ;—a robust frame and a noble and commanding presence ; " ready eloquence, to which art only applied the cultivation requisite to satisfy the fastidious demands of a rhetorical age ; quickness of observation, acuteness of discernment, presence of mind, fertility of invention, and dexterity in the management of men and things'
Side 24 - His body was immersed in honey, and conveyed home to ¡Sparta for burial. Though Agesipolis did not share the ambitious views of foreign conquest cherished by Agesilaus, his loss was deeply regretted by that prince, who...
Side 103 - I will abide by the treaty which the King sent down, and by the decrees of the Athenians and their allies. And if anybody takes the field against any one of the cities which have sworn this oath, I will come to her aid with all my strength.
Side 485 - If the rest of the work answers to the beginning, this publication will stand as one of the most important contributions ever made to the history of the West.
Side 223 - It was undoutedly not the study of philosophy, either speculative or practical, that chiefly occupied Philip's attention during this period. To the society in which it was passed he may have been mainly indebted for that command of the Greek language which enabled him both to write and speak it with a degree of ease and elegance not inferior to that of the most practised orators of his day. But the most important advantages which he gained from his stay at Thebes, were probably derived from the military...
Side 127 - A body of heavy-armed which appeared on the other side deterred them from attempting the passage, and they proceeded, still keeping the left bank, to plunder and destroy the dwellings which were thickly scattered in the neighbourhood of the capital, and which from Xenophon's description, who says they were full of good things, seem to have been chiefly villas of the more opulent Spartans, and were probably better stored and furnished than their houses in the town.
Side 127 - ... from Xenophon's description, who says they were full of good things, seem to have been chiefly villas of the more opulent Spartans, and were probably better stored and furnished than their houses in the town. It was the first time that fires kindled by a hostile army had ever been seen from Sparta, since it had been in the possession of the Dorian race ; and the grief and consternation excited by the spectacle in the women, and the elder part of the men, were proportioned not merely to its strangeness,...
Side 108 - ... superiority in the Athenian character and institutions over those of Argos, that under similar circumstances, in the affair of the Hermes busts, when religious and political fanaticism combined their influence to madden the people, no such spectacle was witnessed at Athens. THE ARCADIAN REVOLUTION With a territory more extensive than any other region of Peloponnesus, peopled by a hardy race, proud of its ancient origin and immemorial possession of the land, and of its peculiar religious traditions,...
Side 224 - Theban palestras : a noble person, a commanding and prepossessing mien, which won respect and inspired confidence in all who approached him : ready eloquence, to which art only applied the cultivation requisite to satisfy the fastidious demands of a rhetorical age: quickness of observation, acuteness of discernment...
Side 396 - ... sums were spent. There every man knew his part and place beforehand, and, therefore, all was executed with unfailing exactness ; but when an expedition was decreed, there were questions to be discussed, disputes to be settled, ways and means to be found, and the preparations were never completed until the object was lost.'4 The Athenians neglected his advice, and in one generation the wealth, the enterprise, and the liberties of Greece passed into the Lands of the military monarchy of Macedón.