The History of Greece, from the Earliest Period to the Death of Agesilaus, Volume 1T. Tegg and son, 1835 |
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Page 48 - But wild like beasts lurking in loathsome den, And flying fast as roebucke through the fen, All naked without shame, or care of cold, By hunting and by spoiling lived then; Of stature huge, and eke of courage bold, That sonnes of men amazd their sternesse to behold.
Page 140 - These are the evils," we are told in the Iliad, " that follow the capture of a town: the men are killed ; the city is Burned to the ground; the women and children of all ranks are carried off for slaves.
Page 298 - Naxus so increased and florished, that, in the sixth year only from its foundation, its people, still under the conduct of Thucles, driving the Sicels before them, founded first Leontini, and soon after Catana. About the same time a new colony from Megara, under Lamis, founded the Hyblaean Megara.
Page 248 - Never was human nature degraded by system to such a degree as in the miserable Helots. Every possible method was taken to set them at the widest distance from their haughty masters. Even vice was commanded to them : they were compelled to drunkenness for the purpose of exhibiting to the young Lacedaemonians the ridiculous and contemptible condition to which men are reduced by it. They were...
Page 122 - ... ranks and files. Steadiness in the soldier, that foundation of all those powers which distinguish an army from a mob, and which to this day forms the highest praise of the best troops, we find in great perfection in the Iliad. '• The Grecian phalanges,
Page 167 - ... the same time very commodious for the purposes of the priests. Once appointed she was never to quit the temple. But unfortunately it happened that one Pythoness made her escape : her singular beauty enamoured a young Thessalian, who succeeded in the hazardous attempt to carry her off.
Page 147 - Andromanche are frequently represented as appearing in company with the Trojan chiefs, and mingling freely in conversation with them. Attended only by one or two maid servants, they walk through the streets of Troy, as business or fancy directs: even the prudent Penelope, persecuted as she is by her suitors, does not scruple occasionally to appear among them ; and scarcely more reserve seems to be imposed on virgins than married women. Mitford has well observed, that " Homer's elegant eulogiums and...
Page 117 - Aristotle,* generally enough disposed to differ from his master, upon this subject coincides with him. It appears indeed a solecism, as the same writer observes, to suppose that those elegant perceptions and nice organs which gave form to the most harmonious language ever spoken among men, and guided invention to the structure of that verse which, even under the gross disguise of modern pronunciation, is still universally charming, could have produced or tolerated a vicious or inelegant style of...
Page 351 - Lacedemonians were at this time by far the first people of Greece. Bound by their singular laws to a kind of monkish poverty, their ambition was unbounded. Masters of Messenia by conquest, allied from of old with Corinth, and, as the more powerful state, always taking the lead in the league, they in a great degree commanded Peloponnesus.
Page 167 - ... girls should be preserved to her. The office of Pythoness appears not to have been desirable. Either the emanation from the cavern, or some art of the managers, threw her into real convulsions. Priests entitled prophets led her to the sacred tripod, force being often necessary for...