thucydides in English
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1. Thus, when Thucydides arrived, Amphipolis was already under Spartan control.
2. Eucles, the Athenian commander at Amphipolis, sent to Thucydides for help.
3. The 1,000 Argives, figures by Foundry & Black Tree Design RRtK for Thucydides, Part 6
4. 16 This is what Pericles boasts to his listeners in the famous funeral oration told by Thucydides.
5. Thucydides' account clearly details the complete disappearance of social morals during the time of the plague.
6. Antiphon's speech in his own defence, a small papyrus fragment of which survives, was the finest speech Thucydides knew
7. Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus states this account together with the legend that Italy was named after Italus, mentioned also by Aristotle and Thucydides.
8. Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, a contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens".
9. According to Thucydides, it included as many as 150,000 men, but was obliged to retire through the failure of provisions, and the coming winter.
10. Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off (at the Siege of Sestos) and felt Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.
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12. Together with Atticisms we must mention a considerable number of words from Attic prose and comedy which Schmid does not mention, namely 32 literary terms taken from Thucydides (7rEplopOpov), Aristophanes (qvAAof3oAEw), Plato (18toAoy`w), Xenophon (ataKLvOtvofaf`sg), etc., which increase the list of ancient literary terms.
13. The “Apology” of Plato may be compared generally with those speeches of Thucydides in which he has embodied his conception of the lofty character and policy of the great Pericles, and which at the same time furnish a commentary on the situation of affairs from the point of view of the historian
14. μόνη, μόνης, ἡ (μένω) (from Herodotus down), a staying, Abiding, dwelling, abode: John 14:2; μόνην ποιεῖν (L T Tr WH ποιεῖσθαι, as in Thucydides 1, 131; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 7; 13, 2, 1), to make an (one's) abode, παρά τίνι metaphorically, of God and Christ by their power and spirit exerting
15. STRONGS NT 1167: δειλία δειλία, δειλίας, ἡ (δειλός), timidity, fearfullness, Cowardice: 2 Timothy 1:7.(Sophocles (Herodotus), Euripides, (Aristophanes), Thucydides, and subsequent writings.)[SYNONYMS: δειλία, φόβος, εὐλάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good
16. It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly Antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.: For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are Antithetical.: In performing the physical act of turning from one vast panel to the next, the viewer felt the moment of pause between the two Antithetical extremes represented.