The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, and Conquests: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East. Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Volume 5J. J. Tourneisen and J. L. Legrand, 1790 - 307 pages |
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Page 228 - The important design of uniting, by laws and manners, the subjects of his extensive monarchy, was ever present to his mind. For this purpose, he took care to incorporate in his Barbarian armies the Greeks and Macedonians. In each company, or rather in each division of sixteen, he joined four Europeans to twelve Asiatics.
Page 129 - This place is diftant about feventyfive miles from the Euxine, and two hundred and forty from the Cilician fea ; and was famous, in remote antiquity , as the principal refidence of the Phrygian kings, and the chief feat of their opulence and grandeur ". Alexander had not long arrived in that place, when a defire feized him of...
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Page 27 - Greeks ; you warn us to guard against this man's design. (And it is too true, we have done thus.) But, O most wretched of mankind ! when this man had been ten months detained abroad ; when sickness, and the severity of winter, and the armies of his enemies, rendered it impossible for him to return home...
Page 129 - Imall piece of land , and two yokes of oxen , one of which he employed in the plough , and the other in the •waggon. It happened to Gordius, while he was one day ploughing , that an eagle alighted on his yoke i and fat on it till evening.
Page 227 - Euphrates ; carefully examined the nature of the soil ; and having discovered, at the distance of about four miles from the inosculation of the Euphrates and Pallacopas, a hard and rocky bottom, he commanded a canal to be cut there, which served to moderate the inundations at one season, without too much draining the waters at another. Having performed this...
Page 38 - PHILIP King of MACEDON, to the SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ATHENS, health ! "I have received three of your citizens in quality of ambassadors, who have conferred with me about the dismission of certain ships commanded by Leodamas. I cannot but consider it as an extraordinary instance of weakness, to imagine that I can possibly believe that these ships were...