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Title: Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Potter, John, 1673 or 4-1747
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Publisher: Edinburgh Stirling & Slade
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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sof every little contrivance, it is no wonder if they conferred thesame honours on those great benefactors, to whoni they were oblig-ed for the security and quiet possession of whatever the rest oftheir deities had gratified them with. Once, indeed, inclosedwithin walls, they looked upon themselves safe frora all assaults ;and, had not a weak opposition withiu been sufficient to repelmuch grcater forces of invaders, such a town as Troy could neverhave held out tcn years against an hundred thousand besiegers, Nor were the Grecians of later ages, however renowned forknowlcdge in military affairs, very willing to undertake, or ex-pert in managing sieges ; but rather chose to end thcir quarrels,if posslble,^by one dccisivc battle, than to undergo the fatigue, andother incommodities of so tedious, so dangcrous, and expensive amethod. Of all the Grecians, the most averse froni undertaking leaguers,and the most uuskilful in carryiug them on to advantage, wcre the ^^ Thucydides initio lib. i.
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