Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE FIRST BOOK, chapter 16

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16. As others by other means were kept back from growing great, so also the Ionians by this: that the Persian affairs prospering, Cyrus and the Persian kingdom after the defeat of Croesus made war upon all that lieth from the river Halys to the seaside and so subdued all the cities which they possessed in the continent; and Darius afterward, when he had overcome the Phoenician fleet, did the like unto them in the islands.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXVII
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER LXXVII
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.13
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.17
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.4
- Harold North Fowler, Commentary on Thucydides Book 5, 5.20
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.53
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.pos=2.1
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.2
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), PHOENI´CIA
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter V
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
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- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, The Archaic Age
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- LSJ, προχωρ-έω

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