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. 1858 Excerpt: ...but, taking into consideration the concluding words, the former hypothesis seems the more probable. But, as I have before said, we must not look for topographical, or other minutiae in any ancient poet. Castor and Pollux were the especial patrons of athletic sports: their statues, according to Pausanias, stood at the ...
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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. 1858 Excerpt: ...but, taking into consideration the concluding words, the former hypothesis seems the more probable. But, as I have before said, we must not look for topographical, or other minutiae in any ancient poet. Castor and Pollux were the especial patrons of athletic sports: their statues, according to Pausanias, stood at the entrance to the Dromos, where they were known under the title diptrr')pun, ' the starters/ hence it is possible that the word SydKpM may be used significantly by the poet. With regard to this point Colonel Leake's map is at variance with his text, for it represents Pitane as separated from the river hy Limnae and the Messoatae. C1ty Walls.--It was the pride and boast of the ancient Spartans that their city needed no bulwarks. What the Irish poet fondly dreams of his O'Briens and O'Donoghoos might be said with sober truth of the kings of Sparta: --0 for the kings of former time! O for the pomp that crowned them! When the hearts and the hands of free-born men Were all the ramparts round them. Such was their state when Thucydides wrote in a wellknown passage (b. 1. c. 10), which may be freely translated thus: --' If the city of the Lacedaemonians were destroyed, and only its temples and the foundations of its buildings left, remote posterity would greatly doubt whether their power were ever equal to their renown; yet they are actually in occupation of two parts out of five of the Peloponnese, and at the head of the whole peninsula and many external allies; nevertheless, as their city is not continuous and compact, and has no costly monuments, sacred or civil, but is divided into villages after the old fashion of Greece, it would seem to fall short of its fame.' The villages were probably five in number, Pitane, Limnae, Messoae, Cynosoura, and Mgeis, ...
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