History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. Ii. Grecian History to the Reign of ... 6
History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. Ii. Grecian History to the Reign of ... 6
George Grote
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[Part II. A more desperate position cannot be imagined. The interrogatory was expressly so framed as to exclude allusion to any facts preceding the Pelo* Speech of ponnesian war. But the speakers, though fully d'epu^^v^ conscious how slight was their chance of success, juHson disregarded the limits of the question itself, and behalf of while upholding with unshaken courage the dignity themselves /.i.i.,. i % •i-i u and their of their littlc City, ncglectcd no topic which could touch the sympath...ies of their judges. After re- monstrating against the mere mockery of trial and judgement to which they were submitted, they appealed to the Hellenic sympathies, and lofty reputation for commanding virtue, of the Lacedse* monians. They adverted to the first alliance of Pla- tsBa with Athens, concluded at the recommendation of the Lacedaemonians themselves, who had then declined, though formally solicited, to undertake the protection of the town against Theban oppression. They next turned to the Persian war, wherein Pla- tsean patriotism towards Greece was not less con- spicuous than Theban treason* — to the victory gained over the Persians on their soil, whereby it had become hallowed under the promises of Pausa* nias and by solemn appeals to the local gods.
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