 | Herodotus - 1875 - 588 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker, and the distance much shorter, than the way round the hills, and the ascent. 8 So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, 8 and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker, and the distance much shorter, than the way round the hills, and the ascent. So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 438 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker, and the distance much shorter, than the way round the hills, and the ascent. So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
 | William Stearns Davis - 1912 - 394 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker', and the distance much shorter, thau the way round the hills, and the ascent. So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh; and the Greeks under Leonidas, as they now went north determined to die, advanced much farther than on previous days, until they reached the more open... | |
 | William Stearns Davis - 1912 - 422 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker, and the distance much shorter, than the way round the hills, and the ascent. So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh; and the Greeks under Leonidas, as they now went north determined to die, advanced much farther than on previous days, until they reached the more open... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 Seiten
...after which he waited until the time when the market is wont to fill, 1 and then began his advance. ... So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 Seiten
...after which he waited until the time when the market is wont to fill, 1 and then began his advance. ... So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 Seiten
...after which he waited until the time when the market is wont to fill, 1 and then began his advance. ... So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...forth determined to die, advanced much further than on pre\ ious i!.i\ s, until they reached the more open portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their... | |
 | Ida Carleton Thallon - 1914 - 680 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker, and the distance much shorter, than the way round the hills, and the ascent. So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
 | Chauncey Wetmore Wells - 1914 - 332 Seiten
...mountain is much quicker, and the distance much shorter, than the way round the hills, and the ascent. So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh;...portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their station within the wall, and from this had gone forth to fight at the point where the pass was the... | |
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So the barbarians under Xerxes began to draw nigh; and the Greeks under Leonidas, as they now went forth determined to die, advanced much further than on previous days, until they reached the more open portion of the pass. Hitherto they had held their 
