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 115 - Athenians,whose city he preferred to be the repository of his trophies and renown. Immediately after the battle, he sent three hundred suits of Persian armour, as dedications to Minerva in the citadel. This magnificent present was inscribed with the following words : " Gained by Alexander, son of Philip, and the Greeks (except the Lacedaemonians), from the Barbarians of Asia.
Page 40 - Olympic, and Pythian, where proclamation shall be duly made of that crown, now by us conferred on the people of Athens, that all Greece may be informed of the magnanimity of Athens, and the gratitude of the Byzantines and Perinthians.
Page 244 - IIlyrians, and Triballi. Having repelled 'the ravagers of your country, he brought you from the mountains to the plain, and taught you to confide, not in your fastnesses, but in your valour.
Page 166 - Darius next moved his main body, but with so little order, that the horse, mixed with the infantry, advanced, and left a vacuity in the line, which his generals wanted time <?r vigilance to supply.
Page 110 - While these troops boldly entered the Granicus, Alexander likewise advanced with the chosen cavalry on the right wing, followed by the archers and Agrians. In passing the river, both Alexander and Ptolemy led their troops obliquely down the current, to prevent as much as possible the Persians...
Page 227 - Long as the vital spirit moves my heart? If in the melancholy shades below, The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow, Yet mine shall sacred last; mine undecay'd Burn on through death, and animate my shade.
Page 23 - 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 208 - ... cafion loud and foaming billows , mixed with boiling eddies and whirlpools, equally formidable, and ftill more dangerous. Of the Macedonians , who attempted to pafs in boats, many drove againft the rocks, and perifhed ; but fuch as employed hides , reached the oppofite fhore in fafety. The Hydraotes is of the fame breadth with the Acefines , but flows with a gentle current.
Page 89 - ... would purchafe the imagined grandeur and profperity of the king of Macedon, at the price of his artifices and crimes , and to a philofopher , who confidered either the means by which he had obtained his triumphs, or the probable confequences of his dominion over Greece and Afia, the bufy ambition of this mighty conqueror would appear but a deceitful fcene of fplendid mifery.
Page 34 - 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...