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Strona 101 - Lysander, is doubtful; for it was the general belief afterwards, not merely at Athens, but seemingly in other parts of Greece also, that the Athenian fleet was sold to perdition by the treason of some of its own commanders. Of this suspicion both Konon and Philoklls stand clear.
Strona 115 - Samos, in order that his presence might secure the success of the movement. It was then proposed in the assembly that a committee of thirty should be named to draw up laws for the future government of the city, and to undertake its temporary administration. Among the most prominent of the thirty names were those of Critias and Theramenes. The proposal was of course carried. Lysander himself addressed the assembly, and contemptuously told them that they had better take thought for their personal safety,...
Strona 121 - ... the work of seizing their victims, they not only employed the hands of these paid satellites, but also sent along with them citizens of station and respectability, whom they constrained by threats and intimidation to lend their personal aid in a service so thoroughly odious. By such participation, these citizens became compromised and imbrued in crime, and as it were, consenting parties in the public eye to all the projects of the Thirty ; ' exposed to the same general hatred as the latter, and...
Strona 78 - Thirty, we shall be warranted in affirming that the first years of the Spartan empire, which followed upon the victory of ^Egospotami, were years of all-pervading tyranny, and multifarious intestine calamity, such as Greece had never before endured.
Strona 122 - But the Athenian demos, on coming back from Piraeus, exhibited the rare phenomenon of a restoration after cruel wrong suffered, sacrificing all the strong impulse of retaliation to a generous and deliberate regard for the future march of the commonwealth.
Strona 112 - Antiphon, the son of Sophilus, at that time already an advanced sexagenarian, but full of unwearying activity, political experience, and knowledge of human nature ; inexhaustible in clever devices, trustworthy and reticent ; in intellectual power and influence superior to all his fellow-citizens, and at the same time perfect master of himself.
Strona 121 - Lycabettus, and at the distance of a mile from the latter, was the Acropolis, or citadel of Athens, a square craggy rock rising abruptly about 150 feet, with a flat summit of about 1000 feet long from east to west, by 500 feet broad from north to south.
Strona 66 - The latter on returning saw before them men who had handed in their relatives to be put to death without trial ; who had seized upon and enjoyed their property ; who had expelled them all from the city, and a large portion of them even from Attica ; and who had held themselves in mastery not merely...
Strona 78 - ... satiate their lusts as well as their antipathies, and would not be more likely to set bounds to the former than to the latter. Lysander, in all the overweening insolence of victory, while rewarding his...
Strona 101 - when anything is assumed in a halfquestioning way, that the speaker may build something on the assent of the person appealed to.