The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 2, pt. 2
The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 2, pt. 2
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From this time iorward, though he neither assumed the diadem, ^ Diodorusy 1. xix. c. 7.
Wliat mourner ever felt poetic fires !
Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires.
Tick^.^ lOL.II. M 16^ HISTORY OF GREECE, c HA P. nor was attended by guai'ds, nor affected tlie external show of royalty, he exercised with vigour the tovereign power ; appointed and dis- ciplined the army ; increased and equipped the fleet; raised, directed, and improved the revenues.
He aspires The c^^acious ambition of Aga...thocles was sninioii S not to be Satisfied with the possession of Syracuse D^'"t *"^ ^** diminutive territory. He aspired to do- powen in miniou ovcr the whole island, which, even then, teisancL -^ j^ comparatively degraded and disunited state, still continued the richest and best culti- vated portion of the western world. But the occasion requires that we should here describe its condition more particularly, as well as the circumstances of the nations among whom it was divided. From the admirable digression of Thucydides, concerning the antiquities of Sicily, each sentence of which contains matter of im- portant information, we learn that, three hundred years before the establishment and diffusion of Greek colonies over its southern and eastern coasts, its ancient inhabitants the Sicani, a people from Spain, were conquered by the Siculi, an obscure Italian tribe, from which the name of Sicania was changed into that of Sicily.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
From this time iorward, though he neither assumed the diadem, ^ Diodorusy 1. xix. c. 7.
Wliat mourner ever felt poetic fires !
Slow comes the verse that real woe inspires.
Tick^.^ lOL.II. M 16^ HISTORY OF GREECE, c HA P. nor was attended by guai'ds, nor affected tlie external show of royalty, he exercised with vigour the tovereign power ; appointed and dis- ciplined the army ; increased and equipped the fleet; raised, directed, and improved the revenues.
He aspires The c^^acious ambition of Aga...thocles was sninioii S not to be Satisfied with the possession of Syracuse D^'"t *"^ ^** diminutive territory. He aspired to do- powen in miniou ovcr the whole island, which, even then, teisancL -^ j^ comparatively degraded and disunited state, still continued the richest and best culti- vated portion of the western world. But the occasion requires that we should here describe its condition more particularly, as well as the circumstances of the nations among whom it was divided. From the admirable digression of Thucydides, concerning the antiquities of Sicily, each sentence of which contains matter of im- portant information, we learn that, three hundred years before the establishment and diffusion of Greek colonies over its southern and eastern coasts, its ancient inhabitants the Sicani, a people from Spain, were conquered by the Siculi, an obscure Italian tribe, from which the name of Sicania was changed into that of Sicily.
What to read after The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 2, pt. 2?
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