This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... the Thracians, like most barbarians, says Thucydides, who knew them from living among them, are commonly bloody-minded in success; insomuch that for sport they would kill even the beasts that fell in their way. There was a very large school, in which the boys were just assembled, when the (hap. Thracians broke in, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... the Thracians, like most barbarians, says Thucydides, who knew them from living among them, are commonly bloody-minded in success; insomuch that for sport they would kill even the beasts that fell in their way. There was a very large school, in which the boys were just assembled, when the (hap. Thracians broke in, and put every one to death. J_ '_ Destruction so unexpected and so complete, continues the contemporary historian, scarcely ever fell upon any town. Thucyd. News of this scene of bloodshed being quickly carried to Thebes, a body of forces instantly marched: too late to give any relief to the Mycalessians, but in time to overtake the Thracians. Those barbarians, who in courage were inferior to none, and in discipline not despicable, frequently turning in their retreat, repulsed the Theban cavalry; and Skirphondas, one of the Bceotarchs, was killed. They were however compelled to abandon all their booty; and when they arrived on the beach, in the confusion of embarkation, they suffered greatly; those unpractised in swimming being indeed without resource; for the Athenian seamen, little solicitous about such allies, carefully kept themselves and their vessels out of the reach of the justly enraged enemy. About two hundred and fifty Thracians were killed: the rest were conducted by Diitrephes to their own country. Tiu-cyd. Meanwhile Demosthenes, having joined Charicles, c 'was meditating measures for revenging against Lacedaeinon the evils suffered by Athens from the garrison of Decelea. At Nauplia he took aboard a body of Argive infantry. Turning back then upon the Epidaurian coast, he made a descent and collected some booty. Having thus engaged the enemy's attention toward the northern parts of Peloponnesus, he re-embarked his forces, and proceedin...
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