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...th purging by the weak wine of Lesbos. There was, they say, an old woman in Attica who could drink thirty drachmas of hemlock without danger, and Lys...

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...ther’s side, ascends as high as to Erechtheus and the first inhabitants of Attica. By his mother’s side he was descended of Pelops. For Pelops was the... ... occasion. Androgeus having been treacherously murdered in the confines of Attica, not only Minos, his fa- ther, put the Athenians to extreme distress... ...tom of giving a palm to the victors. When they were come near the coast of Attica, so great was the joy for the happy success of their voyage, that ne... ... a great and wonderful design, he gathered together all the inhabitants of Attica into one town, and made them one people of one city, whereas before ... ... a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined Megara to Attica, and erected that famous pillar on the Isthmus, which bears an inscr... ...red to the god. This was the origin and cause of the Amazonian invasion of Attica, which would seem to have been no slight or wom- anish enterprise. F... ...r justly nor honorably; and lastly, of the rape of Helen, which filled all Attica with war and blood, 27 Plutarch’s Lives and was in the end the occa... ...d the Lacedaemonians, when often in aftertimes they made incur- sions into Attica, and destroyed all the country round about, spared the Academy for t... ...f Ath- ens, gave them the island, and that one of them dwelt at Brauron in Attica, the other at Melite; and they have a town- ship of Philaidae, to wh...

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...ear thir- teen sisters, it is probable I should have liked this country of Attica, in sight of the blue shores of which the present pathetic letter is... ...have been abominably overcharged at the inn:and what are the blue hills of Attica, the silver calm basin of Piraeus, the heathery heights of Pentelicu... ...ofit?Y ou theorise about the influence which the climate and appearance of Attica must have had in enno- bling those who were born there: yonder dirty...

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... to make war as far off from home as possible, and fight the battle out of Attica, “Good friend,” said Phocion, “let us not ask where we shall fight, ... ...led from Alexander out of Asia, carrying off a large sum of money, came to Attica, and there was a perfect race among the ordinary public men of the a... ... Theban territories, but intended to dislodge immedi- ately, and pass into Attica. Phocion’s first request was, that he would make the treaty without ... ...bans into this confederacy with the rest. Their country bordered next upon Attica, they had great forces for the war, and at that time they were accou... ... aroused, and up in arms to help. And the commanders-in-chief, not only of Attica, but of Boeotia, applied themselves to Demosthenes, and observed his... ... and T roezen, and, with tears in his eyes, looking towards the country of Attica. And there remain upon record some sayings of his, little resembling... ...d and thirty ships, and many soldiers; and not only drove Cassander out of Attica, but pursued him as far as Thermopylae, routed him, and became maste... ...sed the sea in safety, with a large fleet; but, passing along the coast of Attica, was met by a violent storm, and lost the greater number of his ship... ...over divers cities which had revolted from him, and made an incursion into Attica, where he took Eleusis and Rhamnus and wasted the country thereabout...

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...id that he was called Aegeus, and that he was a great king, and ruled over Attica, and dwelt at Athens, which was as famous a city as any in the world... ...deck slope too much. In due season, they came within sight of the coast of Attica, which was their native country. But here, I am grieved to tell you,...

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...Oedipus?’ Potter. The place to which they had come was in Attica, hear the city of Colonus. It was a lovely grove— ‘ All the haunts o... ...at King had sent his best troops to be signally defeated upon the coast of Attica; but the losses at Marathon had but stimulated the Persian lust of c...

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... and, in *Epirus and Acarnania, etc., to the north-west; Roumelia, Thebes, Attica, to the east; the Morea, or Peloponnesus, to the south-west; and the... ...eek of April an insurrection burst out in the eastern provinces of Greece, Attica, Boeotia, and Phocis. The insurgents first appeared near Livadia, on... ...anded as a lieutenant of Ali Pacha’s. Next arose the Albanian peasantry of Attica, gathering in armed bodies to the west of Athens. Towards the end of... ...e. But, perhaps, at the moment of his death amongst the gloomy thickets of Attica, he might have been able to suggest another and a better. If not, th...

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...ake these unpleasant concessions; viz., 1st, that in Athens and throughout Attica, where, by special preference, one would wish to see the Grecian cas...

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...they would have produced a little ‘ninety-three’ in the Roman Empire or in Attica.” “What are you trying to come to, monsieur?” asked the lawyer. “T o...

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...t Abbots and Archery The Red headed League 29 and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B’s before ...

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... even of promises—his own coin. The freedman of a western poet-chief Holds Attica with seven thousand rebels, And has beat back the Pacha of Negropont... ...563]. A Greek who had been Lord Byron’s servant commands the insurgents in Attica. This Greek, Lord Byron informs me, though a poet and an enthusiasti...

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...our Theme.— The man who has stood on the Acropolis, And look’d down over Attica; or he Who has sail’d where picturesque Constantinople is, O...

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...two or three hours before ’tis brought in. ’Tis said that Cranabs, king of Attica, was the inventor of this custom of diluting wine; whether useful or...

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... sister deities, in mind and art united, obtained as their lot the land of Attica, a land suited to the growth of virtue and wisdom; and there they se... ...part, and were educated, and had all things in common, like our guardians. Attica in those days extended southwards to the Isthmus, and inland to the ... ...pport a vast army, raised from the surrounding people. Even the remnant of Attica which now exists may com- pare with any region in the world for the ...

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...eliver others from their iniquity not even Theseus, to deliver the soil of Attica from its monsters? Purge away thine own, cast forth thence from t...

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... only hold up before me in like manner a book, and you may lead me all round Attica, and over the wide world. And now having arrived, I intend to lie ...

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...hment for not marching out to fight the Lacedemonians on their invasion of Attica. After this I continued to write papers on subjects often very much ...

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...us, and it was in consequence of this earlier rape that Aphidna, a town in Attica, was sacked and Castor was wounded in the right thigh by Aphidnus wh...

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...t a low relief of people dancing, carved out of Parian in some workshop in Attica. Once he stopped and leaned for a long while against the moisture-be...