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 (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 363
ose and broke thewhole work to pieces. Now when Xerxes heard thereof hewas filled with wrath and straightway sent orders that theHellespont should receive three hundred lashes, and thatfetters should be cast into it. Nay, I have even heard it saidthat he bade branders take their irons and brand the… … A Late Black-figured IIvdria 250 THE PERSIAN INVASIONS of war (triremes and penteconters) were arranged in two lines,and over each of these were stretched by means of capstans sixhuge cables, some of flax and some of papyrus (the former weigh-ing not less than fifty-seven pounds the cubit).…
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