Histories

obedience-and-authority

• There is neither so much gold anywhere in the world, nor a country so pre-eminent in beauty, by receiving which we should be willing to enslave Greece.

  HISTO-RC-542

• Being left to their own free will, they will do nothing of the kind — the valour that you speak of exists among us; it is not, however, common, but rare.

  HISTO-RC-450

ambition-and-status

• Pausanias, pointing to each preparation for supper, said: 'I have called you to show you the folly of the leader of the Medes, who came to take from us our poor fare.'

  HISTO-RC-573

• Xerxes, being informed of his intentions, sent an army after him, and slew him, and his sons, and his forces upon the way — such were the circumstances respecting the amour of Xerxes.

  HISTO-RC-584

mortality

• Many fell during this interval, and many more were wounded; the Spartans being hard pressed, and the victims continuing unfavourable, Pausanias looked toward the Temple of Juno.

  HISTO-RC-566

• Leonidas has been amply avenged; both he and all who fell at Thermopylae have been avenged by the countless deaths of these men.

  HISTO-RC-572