Stories from HerodotusJ. Burns, 1847 - 278 páginas |
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Ægina Agetus Alcmæon Amasis answered Argives Argos Aristagoras army Artaphernes Artemisium Asia Asopus Athenians Athens awhile barbarians battle brethren Cambyses Cleomenes Clisthenes conquered counsel cried Cyrus Darius Delphi Demaratus Democedes Dorians earth Egypt Egyptians enemy ephors Euboea Eurybiades fell fight fled fleet gods Grecians Greece guards hand Harmodius and Aristogiton haste heard Hippias Histiæus honour horsemen host Hydarnes Ionians island Isthmus king land leader Leonidas Leotychides Lydian Mæandrius Marathon Mardonius Megabazus Megacles messengers methinks mighty Milesian Moreover mount mountains never Nile noble oracle Oroetes Pæonians pass Pausanias Persians Phocians plain Polycrates Psammenitus river round sail Salamis Samian Samos Sardis sent ships shore sians slain slaves Spartans spears stand stone stood straight strait Susa Syloson Tegeans temple Thebans Themistocles Thermopyla Thessalians thou thought thousand took tyrant wall words Xerxes
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