Athens, Its Rise And Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, And ...
Athens, Its Rise And Fall: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, And ...
Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron
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** And never," says Herodotus, *' was there a military expedition comparable to this. Hard would it be to specify one nation ol Asia, which did not accompany the Persian king, or any waters^ Save the great rivers, which were not exhausted by his armament/' Preparations for an expedition of three years were made, to guar4 against the calamities formerly sustained by the Persian fleets Had the success of the expeditioti been commensurate with the grandeur of its commencement, perhaps it would hav...e ranked amongst the sublimest conceptions of military genius. All its schemes were of a vast and gigantic nature. Across the isthmus, which joint the promontory of Athos to the Thracian continent, a canal waa formed - a ilrork ot so enormo,u3 a labour, that it seems almost to have justified the scepticism of later writers ;(2) but for the con- current testimony of Thucydides and Lysyas> Plato, Herodotus and Sttabo. JBridges were also thrown over the river Strymon i th6 cira df {i\ tterod. lib. yii.
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