Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1915)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · London : G. G. Harrap · leaf 468
and, as at Thermopylae, on aheight; but, when circumvented, as at Thermopylae, theydoubtless felt no such enthusiasm for their cause as thosearound lyeonidas had felt, and they surrendered—a coursenever before taken, perhaps, in Spartan warfare. Sphacteriawas strongly garrisoned with Messenians… … 93- The XikU (\ictukv; of Pahoxius 336 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR of Victory floating aloft amidst trailing wind-blown drapery—the work of the sculptor Paeonius (Fig. 93). In the next year (424) the Athenians captured the islandof Cythera—a formidable base for naval operations againstSparta. Also Nisaea…
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