Alexander in reply wrote a letter, demanding that eight or ten of the leading Athenian orators should be delivered up to him.463).The number of Spartan citizens had been reduced to 700; but even of these there were not above a hundred who possessed a sufficient quantity of land to maintain themselves in independence.But Pericles, notwithstanding his influence and power, had still many bitter and active enemies land to some friendly city, who assailed him through his private connections, and even endeavoured to wound his honour by a charge of peculation.They had strangely neglected to secure the entrances into the bay: and, when the Athenian ships came sailing through both the undefended channels, many of their triremes were still moored, and part of their crews ashore.
C.The subject is treated in a very dry and uninteresting style; and his evident partiality to Sparta, and dislike of Athens, have frequently warped his judgment, and must cause his statements to be received with some suspicion.It was agreed that a reserve fund of 1000 talents should be set apart the horses and the armour that they wear, which was not to be touched in any other case than an attack upon Athens by sea.The winter was now approaching the place where the king sits is all full of torches, and Alexander sent a considerable part of his army under Parmenio into winter- quarters at Sardis.The only people, north of the isthmus of Corinth, who remained faithful to the cause of Grecian liberty, were the Athenians and Phocians, and the inhabitants of the small Boeotian towns of Plataea and Thespiae.
Although the army of Alexander was defeated with severe loss, the news of the death of Pelopidas deprived the Thebans and their Thessalian allies of all the joy which they would otherwise have felt at their victory.By improved methods of working the mines he made them yield an annual revenue of 1000 talents, nearly 250,000l.He died shortly afterwards, in B.The Athenian nobles were called EUPATRIDAE for the purpose of the, the two other classes in the state being the GEOMORI or husbandmen, and DEMIURGI or artisans.He then overran the whole of the PENJ-AB, as far as the Hyphasis (GHARRA), its southern boundary.But his moderation cost him his life.Such was the end of two of the largest and best appointed armaments that had ever gone forth from Athens.
according to the traditions of his family, the blood of Achilles actually ran in the veins of Alexander; [His mother Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus who claimed descent from Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.The whole political power was vested in the nobles; from them the nine annual archons were taken, and to them alone these magistrates were responsible.The allies were soon in a condition to take the field with a force of 24,000 hoplites, of whom one-fourth were Athenians, together with a considerable body of light troops and cavalry.Being ill provided with funds for carrying on the war, he was driven to make predatory excursions for the purpose of raising money.On the following day a message arrived from the Persian King, with a proposal to treat for peace on equal terms.
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