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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 268 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 110 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 98 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 84 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 56 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 48 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, Three orations on the Agrarian law, the four against Catiline, the orations for Rabirius, Murena, Sylla, Archias, Flaccus, Scaurus, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 38 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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So it was that these men, being themselves of the character described and always justly administering in some such fashion both their own land and Hellas, were famous throughout all Europe and Asia both for their bodily beauty and for the perfection of their moral excellence, and were of all men then living the most renowned. And now, if we have not lost recollection of what we heard when we were still children,Cf. Tim. 21 A ff. we will frankly impart to you all, as friends, our story of the men who warred against our Athenians, what their state was and how it originally came about.
Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of yearsCf. Tim. 23 E. since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the dwellers beyond the pillars of Heracles and all that dwelt within themCf. Tim. 24 E.; which war we have now to relate in detail. It was stated that this city of ours was in command of the one side and fought through the whole of the war, and in command of the other side were the kings of the island of Atlantis, which we said was an island larger than Libya and Asia once upon a time, but now lies sunk by earthquakes and has created a barrier of impassable mud
made no move. It is by realizing this position of affairs that we can appreciate what manner of men those were, in point of valor, who awaited the onset of the barbarians' power, chastised all Asia's insolent pride, and were the first to rear trophies of victory over the barbarians; whereby they pointed the way to the others and taught them to know that the Persian power was not invincible, since there is no multitude of men or money but courage conquers it.
The Persians were in command of Asia, and were enslaving Europe, when they came in contact with the children of this land, our own parents, of whom it is right and proper that we should make mention first and celebrate their valor. But if we are to celebrate it fitly, in order to visualize it we must place ourselves, in thought, at that epoch when the whole of Asia was already in bondage to the third of the Persian kings. Cyrus,Cyrus overthrew the Medes in 559, and reigned till 529 B.C. the fiom it is right and proper that we should make mention first and celebrate their valor. But if we are to celebrate it fitly, in order to visualize it we must place ourselves, in thought, at that epoch when the whole of Asia was already in bondage to the third of the Persian kings. Cyrus,Cyrus overthrew the Medes in 559, and reigned till 529 B.C. the first of these kings, had by his own spirited action set free his fellow-countrymen, the Persians, and not only enslaved the Medes, their masters,
deeming it their duty to fight in the cause of freedom alike with Greeks on behalf of Greeks and with barbarians on behalf of the whole of Greece. The story of how they repulsed EumolpusEumolpus, a Tracian bard and chieftain, son of Poseidon, said to have aided the Eleusinians in invading Attica. and the Amazons,The Amazons, a race of female warriors in Pontus, said to have attacked Athens and been driven back to Asia by the hero Theseus. and still earlier invaders, when they marched upon our country, and how they defended the Argives against the Cadmeiansi.e. in the war of “the Seven against Thebes” (of which city Cadmus was the founder). and the Heracleidae against the Argives,The Athenians aided “the sons of Heracles” against Eurystheus, King of Tiryns in Argolis. is a story which our time is too short to relate as it deserves, and already their valor has been adequately celebrated in song by poets who have made it known throughout the
but also gained command of the rest of Asia, as far as to Egypt. His sonCambyses, son of Cyrus, 529-522 B.C. ruled over Egypt and as much of Libya as he could traverse; while the third king, Darius, extended his empire by land as far as to the Scythians, and by his navy controlled the sea and the islands,