The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 9J. Bohn, 1843 |
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Page 139 - ... they made their prayers, such as by the law were appointed for before their taking sea ; not in every galley apart, but all together, the herald pronouncing them : and the company from the shore, both of the city and whosoever else wished them well, prayed with them. And when they had sung the Paean, and ended the health, they put forth to sea*.
Page 279 - After this, when everything seemed unto Nicias and Demosthenes sufficiently prepared, they dislodged, being now the third day from their fight by sea. It was a lamentable departure, not only for the particulars, as that they marched away with the loss of their whole fleet, and that instead of their great hopes they had endangered both themselves and the state, but also for the dolorous objects which were presented both to the eye and mind of every of them in particular in the leaving of their camp....
Page 280 - ... and horsemen, contrary to their custom, carried their victuals under their arms, partly for want and partly for distrust of their servants, who from time to time ran over to the enemy; but at this time went the greatest number. And yet what they carried was not enough to serve the turn, for not a jot more provision was left remaining in the camp.
Page 291 - ... another, were carried away together down the stream. And [not only] the Syracusians standing along the farther bank, being a steep one, killed the Athenians with their shot from above as they were many of them greedily drinking and troubling one another in the hollow of the river; but the Peloponnesians came also down and slew them with their swords, and those especially that were in the river.
Page 102 - But this done, there came afterwards some fresh forces from Athens, under the conduct of Philocrates, the son of Demeas. And the town being now strongly besieged, there being also within some that practised to have it given up, they yielded themselves to the discretion of the Athenians, who slew all the men of military age, made slaves of the women and children, and inhabited the place with a colony sent thither afterwards of five hundred men of their own.
Page 161 - ... his Odyssey in order to find a confirmation of my rash thesis that a man translated best that with which he was most in sympathy. And finally I had to put up with his version of the Song of the Sirens. But after all there are worse translations of the famous epitaph on Archedice (Thuk. 6, 59): "Archedice, the daughter of King Hippias, Who in his time Of all the potentates of Greece was prime, This dust doth hide. Daughter, wife, mother unto kings she was Yet free from pride.
Page 101 - Lacedaemonians being about to enter with their army into the territory of the Argives, when they perceived that the sacrifices which they made on the border for their passage were not acceptable, returned. And the Argives, having some of their own city in suspicion in regard of this design of the Lacedaemonians, apprehended some of them, and some escaped. About the same time the Melians took another part of the wall of the Athenians, they that kept the siege being then not many. But this done, there...
Page 295 - And this was the greatest action that happened in all this war, or at all, that we have heard of, amongst the Grecians, being to the victors most glorious, and most calamitous to the vanquished. For being wholly overcome in every kind, and receiving small loss in nothing, their army and fleet, and all that ever they had perished (as they used to say) with an universal destruction. Few of many returned home. And thus passed the business concerning Sicily.
Page 459 - The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian Manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges, Bart KC LLD. late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Britannic Majesty to the Court of Teheran. To which is prefixed", a succinct Account of the History of Persia previous to that Period, 8vu.
Page 138 - Insomuch as amongst themselves, it begat quarrel about precedency3: but amongst other Grecians, a conceit that it was an ostentation rather of their power and riches, than a preparation against an enemy. For if a man enter into account of the expense, as well of the public, as of private men that went the voyage ; namely, of the public, what was spent already in the business, and what was to be given to the commanders to carry with them ; and of private men, what every one had bestowed upon his person,...