 | Joseph Levin Saalschütz - 1847 - 612 pages
...entire revolution in the Athenian feelings ? He had employed his prodigious ascendency over their minds to induce them to follow him without knowing whither, in the confidence of an unknown booty : he had exposed their lives and wasted their substance in wreaking a private grudge: in addition to... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 pages
...entire revolution in the Athenian feelings ? He had employed his prodigious ascendency over their minds to induce them to follow him without knowing whither, in the confidence of an unknown booty j he had exposed their lives and wasted their substance in wreaking a private grudge; in addition to... | |
 | Herodotus - 1861 - 514 pages
...this tendency, " the successful leader" became " one of the most dangerous men in the community ; " s but this fact cannot divest a people of all responsibility...condition of the English people after Waterloo was nq,t in all respects similar to that of the Athenians after Marathon. Yet we might not unreasonably... | |
 | George William Cox - 1874 - 690 pages
...far as the world has yet gone. The main objection brought against 887 Mr. Grote, Hist. Gr. iv. 449, charges Miltiades with employing 'his prodigious ascendency...over the minds of the Athenians ' to induce them to foUow him without knowing whither, in confidence of an unknown booty.' It in a humiliating confession... | |
 | George Grote - 1884 - 526 pages
...entire revolution in the Athenian feelings? He had employed his prodigious ascendency over their minds to induce them to follow him without knowing whither, in the confidence of an unknown booty: he had exposed their lives and wasted their substance in wreaking a private grudge: in addition to... | |
 | George Grote - 1899 - 450 pages
...entire revolution in the Athenian feelings? He had employed his prodigious ascendency over their minds to induce them to follow him without knowing whither, in the confidence of an unknown booty : he liad exposed their lives and wasted their substance in wreaking a private grudge : in addition... | |
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His behavior in the expedition of Paros was as reprehensible as at Marathon it had been meritorious, and the one succeeded immediately after the other : what else could ensue except an entire revolution in the Athenian feelings ? He had employed his prodigious... 