Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades
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§ 1.920 A marble throne was built, a theater for Xerxes...
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§ 1.930 Xerxes took nothing of this,...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:1.940
§ 1.940 At first he thought himself blessed by prosperity,...
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§ 1.950 The army was crossing on an unvarying basis Numbering seven whole days and nights....
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§ 1.960 Stood up against them near Artemision...
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§ 1.970 And was cutting them all down until the sun's rays....
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§ 1.980 Sitting on a golden throne he watched the battle....
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§ 1.990 And their Greek allies much emboldened....
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:2.1
§ 2.1 Barely, after a myriad misfortunes, he crossed to Asia...
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§ 2.10 He who destroyed the splendid youth of Persis...
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§ 2.16 CHILIADES BOOK 2, TRANSLATED BY GARY BERKOWITZ ( T33...
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§ 2.20 And particularly Gaius Julius...
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§ 2.30 To show a light of safety to cargo vessels in the waves....
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§ 2.35 ( T34 ) CONCERNING TRAJAN AND THE BRIDGING OF THE DANUBE Trajan...
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§ 2.40 Nerva, an old man,...
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§ 2.50 Calling from the acropolis these words exactly: “For the good fortune of the Senate and people of the Romans And my own,...
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§ 2.60 Who had rebelled, withholding tribute to the Romans,...
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§ 2.70 The stones stand one hundred and seventy feet Apart from one another,...
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§ 2.80 Destroyed the bridge...
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§ 2.90 And eparch of this reigning city [ Constantinople...
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§ 2.102 ( T35 ) CONCERNING ARCHIMEDES AND SOME OF HIS MACHINES Wise Archimedes...
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§ 2.110 Was attacking Syracuse...
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§ 2.120 And in a space equal to the mirror Set small fourfold mirrors,...
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§ 2.130 “Give me where to stand and my lever will move the whole earth.” This man (according to Diodorus...
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§ 2.140 “Stand away, o man, from my diagram.” But as the Roman was dragging him,...
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§ 2.150 And with them, many men mention Archimedes...
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§ 2.157 ( T36 ) CONCERNING HERACLES [ relying heavily on Pseudo-Apollodorus,...
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§ 2.170 When, Alcmena was at the point of childbirth by him,...
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§ 2.180 Or the one child held back, the other born unfinished,...
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§ 2.190 But rather since Iphicles...
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§ 2.200 Seized by much love for Alcmena...
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§ 2.210 Pontic Herodorus...
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§ 2.220 As a monstrosity they erupted into the places referred to....
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§ 2.230 Heracles by an oracle went to Mycenae...
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§ 2.240 These men Heracles...
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§ 2.250 Heracles, though not being present,...
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§ 2.260 That arouses, frequently, many occasions for malice,...
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§ 2.268 Next, Heracles goes to the Erymanthian Boar...
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§ 2.278 Fifth, Heracles carried out the dung of the three thousand cows...
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§ 2.290 For the sixth labour, with a bronze rattle and his bow,...
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§ 2.299 Eighth, the man-slaying horses...
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§ 2.310 Since Admete,...
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§ 2.320 For the tenth labour, the purple cows...
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§ 2.330 Out of Erytheia...
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§ 2.340 Driving the cows...
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§ 2.350 Having crossed to the Ionian...
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§ 2.360 The guard of these apples was a sleepless dragon,...
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§ 2.372 Heeding the counsels of Prometheus...
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§ 2.380 Saying the nymphs were the seasons, the apples the stars,...
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§ 2.388 So then, having brought the apples to Eurystheus...
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§ 2.400 Covered only by his lion...
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§ 2.412 Now then, after the aforementioned labours,...
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§ 2.420 Who had just saved Alcestis...
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§ 2.430 The daughter of Iardanus...
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§ 2.440 As swift Hermes with wand of gold conveyed bold Heracles...
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§ 2.450 And Cteatus and Eurytus...
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§ 2.460 This Nessus gave his blood to Deianira...
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§ 2.470 After plundering Oechalia...
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§ 2.480 For the blood of Nessus...
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§ 2.490 Cutting together with words, Quintus...
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§ 2.500 Tenth, he drove the Cattle...
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§ 2.508 ( T37 ) CONCERNING SAMSON Samson...
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§ 2.520 As Samson was greatly angry at the affair,...
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§ 2.530 Killed a thousand of them with a jawbone of a donkey...
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§ 2.540 Had their strength in these hairs they....
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§ 2.550 But Samson, groaning deeply from his much-affected heart,...
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§ 2.555 ( T38 ) CONCERNING POLYDAMAS OF SKOTOUSSA This Polydamas...
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§ 2.560 ( T39 ) CONCERNING MILO THE WRESTLER This Milo...
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§ 2.569 ( T40 ) CONCERNING AEGON,...
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§ 2.580 As Theocritus relates,...
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§ 2.590 While Heracles had one entire bull...
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§ 2.600 A ten-amphora jug, though calling it a one-amphora size;...
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§ 2.602 ( T41 ) CONCERNING DAMOXENUS Lucian...
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§ 2.605 ( T42 ) CONCERNING IPHICLUS Iphiclus...
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§ 2.610 “Nor was anyone swifter than vigorous Iphiclus...
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§ 2.613 ( T43 ) CONCERNING EUPHEMUS Euphemus...
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§ 2.620 (Just as even Orion...
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§ 2.626 ( T44 ) CONCERNING PROTEUS Proteus...
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§ 2.641 ( T45 ) CONCERNING PERICLYMENUS Periclymenus...
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§ 2.650 The quickness of leopards, the great strength of lions...
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§ 2.654 ( T46 ) CONCERNING THETIS They say that Thetis...
- urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5030.tlg001:2.660
§ 2.660 And to be meat for beasts in inaccessible mountains....
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§ 2.665 ( T47 ) CONCERNING MESTRA Mestra...
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§ 2.686 ( T48 ) CONCERNING CASTOR AND POLYDEUCES They write that Castor...
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§ 2.700 For in this way the stars of the Twins rise....
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§ 2.710 Even, in addition to them, Stasinus...
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§ 2.717 ( T49 ) CONCERNING AETHALIDES Aethalides...
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§ 2.723 ( T50 ) CONCERNING ARISTEAS Aristeas...
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§ 2.730 Aristeas, having appeared again after seven years,...
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§ 2.741 ( T51 ) CONCERNING THESEUS Theseus...
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§ 2.750 (For the Molossians...
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§ 2.759 ( T52 ) CONCERNING PROTESILAUS This Protesilaus...
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§ 2.770 That the above mentioned wife of Protesilaus...
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§ 2.780 She died with her good and newly married husband,...
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§ 2.785 ( T53 ) CONCERNING ALCESTIS Alcestis...
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§ 2.800 But in no way reporting his misfortune to his friend Admetus...
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§ 2.810 Alcmena, daughter of Electryon...
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§ 2.820 And when Admetus lamented more and did not cease,...
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§ 2.830 After marching against Pherae...
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§ 2.840 For neither do I want alien works to be made my own,...
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