And we need not blame the great statesmen too harshly for not foreseeing the wild excesses of folly and extravagance which we shall have to record in the following pages. INVESTMENT OF PLATAEA In the third

When the herald arrived, he found the men already slain, and the Athenians then proceeded to place the town in a state of defence, removing the women and children and all those who were unfit for military

The furious zeal of Corinth had united her enemies against her, and they were bent on her ruin. The demands put forward by Sparta were a mere pretext, and if the Athenians had yielded the smallest point,

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Every member of the league must join heartily in the struggle, whether he belonged to an inland or to a maritime city; for if the seaports were closed by the Athenian fleets, the inland towns would be

New times require new manners, and if you would maintain your great position you must move with the march of events, and abandon your old-fashioned ways. Do not mistake stagnation for stability, but learn

The Spartans were sluggish and procrastinating by nature, and required some powerful impulse to induce them to act with vigour; and this impulse was now supplied by Corinth. By accepting, therefore, the

The Corinthians, however, were not at all disposed to acquiesce in their defeat, and during the whole of the following year they were busy organising a fresh expedition on a vast scale, being resolved

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The Elements of Euclid - Part 1 The eighth proposition of Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements is another theorem about triangles: GreekEnglish ᾿Εὰν δύο τρίγωνα τὰς δύο πλευρὰς [ταῖς] δύο πλευραῖς ἴσας ἔχῃ ἑκατέραν

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The Elements of Euclid - Part 1 The sixth proposition of Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements is the converse of the first part of Proposition 1:5 (If a given triangle is an isosceles triangle, then the two angles

The Elements of Euclid - Part 1 The fifth proposition of Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements proves two things about isosceles triangles. The first of these is probably the best known property of this type of

The Elements of Euclid - Part 1 Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements opens with three constructions. The third of these demonstrates how to cut off from the longer of two given line segments a segment equal in

The Elements of Euclid - Part 1 Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements opens with three constructions. The second of these demonstrates how to construct a line segment which is equal in length to a given line segment

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The Elements of Euclid - Part 1 Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements opens with three constructions. The first of these, Proposition 1:1, demonstrates how to construct an equilateral triangle: GreekEnglish αʹ.