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History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy

History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy

Freeman, Edward Augustus

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1152302957
ISBN13: 9781152302952
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 580
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.29 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...ftn/SoXV Tcjv 'Axaiwi. Plut. Ar. 34. Kol MaKf divojv itv da-x6wi' foruv Sid Tivas irpoffoiKovs Kal SpApovs iro//ous, Aitwuv Se avunaxovvTwv, iiriSoaiv fiydrjf ij Tgv 'Axatwv Adi/Sare S6vafus. 5 So Klathe, ii. 156. Plutarch (Ar. 34) says only (ripov p.lv, ipxovros T6t( T&p'Axituy, but it clearly was Lydiadas. This year, B.C. 2'J9, is that of his third and last Generalship. Application of the Athenians to Aratos when out of office. Aratos buys the Macedonians out of Attica. the Athenians applied for help.1 To them Aratos, whether as friend or as enemy, had always appeared as the one representative of the League; we hear of no application to the Achaian General, of no audience given to Athenian Ambassadors by the Achaian Assembly; he who had delivered Sikyon and Corinth is prayed to deliver Athens also somehow or other. Probably the Macedonian garrisons would have hindered the progress of avowed Athenian envoys on such an errand; but nothing need have hindered Aratos from communicating the message which he had secretly received, if not to the Assembly or to the Senate, yet at all events to the Chief Magistrate of the year. But so to have done would have been to run the risk of winning glory and influence for a rival; it would have been giving the rash exTyrant a fresh opportunity to propose some of his needless enterprises. Lydiadas might have gone the length of an open attack on the Macedonian garrisons, and have exposed the armies of the League to all the hazards of a pitched battle. Aratos, as ever, is zealous for the deliverance of a Greek state, above all for the deliverance of Athens; to promote that deliverance he is ready to undergo any amount of personal cost, personal exertion, and personal danger; he will gladly free Attica from the presen...

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