The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies And Conquests; From the Earliest ... 5-6
The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies And Conquests; From the Earliest ... 5-6
John Gillies
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Antigo- The armies thus remained four days within bawyt^ half a mile of each other, when, on the fifth, the camp Autigonus scnt an embassy to the satraps and ae«. other officers in the hostile camp, promising to maintain the former in their respective pro- vinces, to grant lands and appointments to the latter ; to take their troops into his immediate pay, and to send home, at his own expence, those Greeks and Macedonians who wished to revisit their native land. The admission of such an embassy,... proved that Eumenes, however ad- mired as a general, was not absolute as a master. But the propositions of Antigonus were rejected, his ambassadors were threatened ; and Eumenes, while he allowed them to depart in safety, taught **» Plutarch in £uinen. FROM ALEXAJNDER TO AUGUSTUS. 487 bis soldiers, by an apologue, to applaud tbeir chap. own prudence in eluding the snare which had ^ ^\ , been laid for them. " A lion/* he said, " loved a fair maiden, whose father opposed their marriage, lest the lion, in case of dissension, might be tempted to make too fierce an application of his claws and teeth; to obviate which objection, the amorous savage deprived himself of those formidable weapons, when, on the renewal of his petition, the father of the maid attacked and killed him with a club.
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