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The History of Greece Volume . 2

The History of Greece Volume . 2

Mitford, William

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1153789299
ISBN13: 9781153789295
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
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. 1829 Excerpt: ...with such an army as could yet be collected within Attica, old men chiefly and Sect. boys, to mai-ch to the relief of Megara, rather than, recal their more vigorous troops from a favorite enterprise. Myronides, with the army, such as it was, under his command, did not scruple to meet the flower of the Corinthian youth; and, though the event would not justify the boast of a decisive victory, he remained master of the field, and erected on it his trophy. The Corinthians, retreating within their own territority, were ill received by their fellow-citizens; who upbraided them with their inglorious return from a fruitless expedition, in which they had yielded the honor of the day to an enemy unable to conquer them. Urged by shame, and under no good conduct, on the twelfth day from the battle, the Corinthian youth returned to the field; and, to vindicate their honor, erected their own trophy in claim of victory. The able Myronides, using an advantageous opportunity for issuing with his motley troops from the walls of Megara, destroyed the detachment employed to erect the trophy, and then attacking the supporting army, put it completely to rout. A Tlmcydjoa large body of the vanquished, pressed in their flight by the conquerors, and missing their road, entered an enclosure surrounded by a ditch, so wide and deep as to preclude passage. The Athenians, apprised of this, secured the only outlet with a sufficient body of their heavy-armed, and then disposing their light-armed around, plied their missile weapons so effectually that every Corinthian within perished. Corinth was so weakened by this severe blow as to be for some time incapable of any considerable exertion. It will be no wonder then if, after so cruel a use of the right of war, animosity and even hatred tow...

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