Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SECOND BOOK, chapter 14

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14. When the Athenians had heard him, they approved of his words and fetched into the city their wives and children and the furniture of their houses, pulling down the very timber of the houses themselves. Their sheep and oxen they sent over into Euboea and into the islands over against them. [2] Nevertheless this removal, in respect they had most of them been accustomed to the country life, grieved them very much.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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Commentary references to this page (7):
- T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8, 8.108
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.75
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.128
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.135
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.84
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.4
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.75
Cross-references to this page (4):
- Harper's, Domus
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), DOMUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ATHE´NAE
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Lysias, On the Olive Stump, Lys. 7 6
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (4):
- LSJ, ἀνά-στα^σις
- LSJ, ξυ?́λ-ωσις
- LSJ, ἐπίκειμαι
- LSJ, πρόβα^τον

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