The Third Book of History, Containing Ancient History in Connection with Ancient GeographyC.J. Hendee, 1839 - 189 páginas |
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Página 172 - Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Página 176 - My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke ; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 169 - Asphaltites, the lavas and pumice thrown out on its banks, and the warm bath of Tabarieh, show that this valley has been the theatre of a fire not yet extinguished. Volumes of smoke are often observed to escape from Lake Asphaltites, and new crevices are found on its margin.
Página 72 - Gracchus was addressing the citizens in the capital, a tumult arose, and on raising his hand to his head to signify that his life was in danger, the partizans of the senate gave out that he wanted a crown, and while attempting to save his life by flight, Saturnius. one of his colleagues in the tribuneship, killed him with the fragment of a seat. Three hundred of his hearers shared his fate, being killed in the tumult. 3. Caius Gracchus, the brother of Tiberius, was at this time living in retirement,...
Página 27 - Its boundaries were afterwards greatly contracted. Greeks against the Persians. But he was stopped in the midst of his warlike preparations. He fell by the hand of an assassin, as he was entering the theatre, at the celebration of the nuptials of his daughter Cleopatra, BC 336.
Página 17 - They were immediately surrounded and slaughtered, leaving an example of intrepidity perhaps unparalleled in history. 11. A superb monument was erected to their memory, with this inscription : " Go, passenger, and tell at Sparta, that we died here in obedience to her laws." 12. The Greeks, now seeing themselves, notwithstanding these heroic struggles, on the eve of being crushed by the Persian power, abandoned their city, by the advice of Themistocles, and having conveyed their women, children, and...
Página 59 - The novelty of such baseness surprised them, and they so much abhorred it, that they immediatelyordered the arms of the traitor to be tied, and giving each of the scholars a whip, bade them whip their master back to the city, and then return to their parents. The boys executed their task...
Página 78 - ... host, who gave his cause great weight, by their earnest approval. He had beaten Antony and Dolabella, the former of whom he compelled to fly, and the latter, took prisoner. Thus fortune, at first, declared in his favor, but his fate depended upon the issue of the hostile meeting between him and Caesar.
Página 136 - Dlnöcrätes, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander to cut mount Athos in the form of a statue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a basin, into which all the waters of the mountain should empty themselves. This project Alexander rejected as too chimerical, but he employed the talents of the artist in building and beautifying Alexandria.
Página 121 - ... having a helmet on her head, and a plume nodding formidably in the air ; holding in her right hand a spear, and in her left a shield, covered with the skin of the goat Amalthea, by which she was nursed...