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. 1849 Excerpt: ...and perfected the breached fortifications. The conjecture of Larcher (see the Notes both of Larcher and Wesseling)--Top AvSov instead of Top Mij8ov--is not an unreasonable one, if it had any authority: the donation of Arganth6nius would then be transferred to the period anterior to the Lydian conquest: it would get rid ...
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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. 1849 Excerpt: ...and perfected the breached fortifications. The conjecture of Larcher (see the Notes both of Larcher and Wesseling)--Top AvSov instead of Top Mij8ov--is not an unreasonable one, if it had any authority: the donation of Arganth6nius would then be transferred to the period anterior to the Lydian conquest: it would get rid of the chronological difficulty above adverted to, but it would introduce some new awkwardness into the narrative. at the same time that he saw clearly through the meaning of it. The Ph6kaeans had determined that the inevitable servitude impending over their town should not be shared by its inhabitants, and they employed their day of grace in preparation for collective exile, putting on shipboard their wives and children as well as their furniture and the moveable decorations of their temples. They then set sail for Chios, leaving to the conqueror a deserted town for the occupation of a Persian garrison ofthePha-It appears that the fugitives were not very kindly ksansvow-received at Chios: at least when they made a pro ed by all, / r executed position for purchasing from the Chians the neighoniy byone kouring islands of CEnussae as a permanent abode, the latter were induced to refuse by apprehensions of commercial rivalry. It was necessary to look farther for a settlement; and Arganthonius, their protector, being now dead, Tartessus was no longer inviting. Twenty years before, however, the colony of Alalia in the island of Corsica had been founded from Ph6kaea by the direction of the oracle, and thither the general body of Ph6kaeans now resolved to repair. Having prepared their ships for this distant voyage, they first sailed back to Ph6kaea, surprised the Persian garrison whom Harpagus had left in the town, and slew them: they then sunk in t...
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