 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 468 pages
...unattended wounds, the bodies remained to putrefy among their living companions. No suffering could result from so wretched a situation, which was not experienced by the Athenian prisoners. Towards the end of November, after a confinement of about seventy days, the islanders and others, who... | |
 | William Mitford - 1822 - 408 pages
...and the eloquent historian, here as on a former occasion, failing of words to his mind to describe the extreme misery, sums up all with saying, that...November, after a confinement of about seventy days, the ilanders, and others who were not citizens of Athens, or of some Grecian town of Sicily or Italy, were... | |
 | William Mitford - 1829 - 520 pages
...and the eloquent historian, here as on a former occasion, failing of words to his mind to describe the extreme misery, sums up all with saying, that...Italy, were taken out for the milder lot of being sold to slavery. The Athenians, with the Sicilian and Italian Greeks, remained; and we are not informed... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 350 pages
...and the eloquent historian, here as on a former occasion, failing of words to his mind to describe the extreme misery, sums up all with saying, that...Italy, were taken out for the milder lot of being sold to slavery. The Athenians, with the Sicilian and Italian Greeks, remained; and we are not informed... | |
 | C; A. BLOSS. - 1867 - 452 pages
...afforded from the inclemency of the weather; and Thucydides summed up their miseries by saying, 41 That no suffering could possibly result from so wretched...which was not experienced by the Athenian prisoners." A few of them, who were sold as slaves to individuals, gained their liberty by repeating passages from... | |
 | Celestia Angenette Bloss - 1870 - 502 pages
...shelter was afforded from the inclemency of the weather; and Thucydides summed up their miseries by saying, "That no suffering could possibly result from...which was not experienced by the Athenian prisoners." A few of them, who were sold as slaves to individuals, gained their liberty by repeating passages from... | |
 | Celestia Angenette Bloss - 1874 - 488 pages
...shelter was afforded from the inclemency of the weather; and Thucydides summed np their miseries by saying, "That no suffering could possibly result from...which was not experienced by the Athenian prisoners." A few of them, who were sold as slaves to individuals, gained their liberty by repeating passages from... | |
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... was taken of those who sickened; and, when any died, as many did, some of unattended wounds, some of disorder caused by various hardship, the bodies remained to putrefy among their living companions ; and the eloquent historian, here as on a former... 