A History of Greece, المجلد 6Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1851 |
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الصفحة 246 - In 1887 the project was enlarged to provide for the construction of two breakwaters — one on the north, the other on the south side of the...
الصفحة 194 - ... pursuit, and in part armed with the sarissa, was drawn from the Thracians and Paeonians, and was about the third of the number of the heavy horse. A smaller body of Greek cavalry probably stood in nearly the same relation to the other two divisions, as the Hypaspists to the heavy and light infantry. To the Hypaspists belonged the royal foot bodyguard, the Agema, or royal escort, and the Argyraspides, so called from the silver ornaments with which their long shields were enriched. But the precise...
الصفحة 241 - He might beforehand receive pledges of his personal safety, and might then ask with confidence for his mother, wife, and children, and for whatever else he could desire. In future, he must address Alexander as the King: of Asia, in the style, not of an equal, but of a subject, or must expect to be treated as an enemy. If, however, he disputed his claim to sovereignty, let him wait for his coming, and try the event of another contest. He might rest assured that Alexander would seek him, wherever he...
الصفحة 221 - ... Acarnanian named Philippus, who stood high in his confidence, undertook to prepare a medicine which would relieve him: In the meanwhile, a letter was brought to the king from Parmenion, informing him of a report that Philippus had been bribed by Darius to poison him. Alexander, it is said, had the letter in his hand, when the physician came in with the draught, and, giving it to him, drank while he read — a...
الصفحة 132 - ... letter in which he informed Aristotle of the birth of his child, he added, " that he thanked the gods less for the son they had given him, than that he had been born when he might have Aristotle for his teacher." Alexander had the greatest possible reverence for his tutor, and used to say of him " that he loved him no less than his father ; for to the one he owed life, to the other the art of living.
الصفحة 192 - Macedonian name, sarissa, four-andtwenty feet long. The sarissa, when couched, projected eighteen feet in front of the soldier : and the space between the ranks was such that those of the second rank were fifteen, those of the third twelve, those of the fourth nine, those of the fifth six, and those of the sixth three feet in advance of the first line : so that the man at the head of the file was guarded on each side by the points of six spears. The ordinary depth of the phalanx was of sixteen ranks....
الصفحة 386 - ... evergreens. At the eighth mile the rocks on either side approached each other, and we passed under an arch of an old gateway, built of black granite and called Kara Cape, or the black gate. This building was once, without doubt, much more extensive than it now is: it is evidently intended to defend the entrance into the defile and I should guess it to have been constructed at a period antecedent to the conquests of the Turks.
الصفحة 246 - ... so prepared for defence as Tyre at this time was, both by nature and art. The island on which the city stood was separated from the main by a channel half a mile broad, through which, in rough weather, the sea rushed with great violence. This strait was indeed shallow on the side of the Phoenician coast, but near the island became three fathoms deep. The walls, which rose from the edge of the cliffs, were 150 feet high on the land side, and composed of huge blocks of stone, cemented with mortar....
الصفحة 136 - We have at least reason to believe that Alexander, though he was but twenty years old at his father's death, had learned, thought, seen, and done more to fit him for the place he was to fill, than many sovereigns in the full maturity of their age and experience. Like his father, he found himself, on his accession to the throne, in a situation which called forth all the powers of his mind and all the energies of his character. Macedonia, though nominally at peace with all its European neighbours,...
الصفحة 250 - ... capitulation rather than ferocity that induced it to execute :its Macedonian prisoners on the top of the walls, and to cast their bodies, •in the sight of the besiegers, into the sea ; but it directed the energy of the people to better expedients. It made a vigorous attempt to surprise the Cypriote squadron stationed near the northern harbour, and would have gained a complete victory over it ; but Alexander, having received timely notice of the sally, sailed round unobserved, turned the fortune...