Heracleides
Britishnoun
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The slanderous tongue of Heracleides had whispered him:—it was not safe to hand over fortified towns to a man with a force at his back.
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Heracleides, as he used to prove to me, finds the sum excessive.
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
When Heracleides heard these words, he was in great consternation; so he came to Seuthes and said: "If we are wise we will get away from here out of reach of these fellows."
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
After listening to this appeal, Seuthes called down curses on him, whose fault it was, that the debt had not long ago been paid, and, if the general suspicion was correct, this was Heracleides.
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Heracleides, in the fourth century B. C., said that Mercury and Venus circled around the sun, and in the third century Aristarchus of Samos actually anticipated, though it was a mere guess, the heliocentric theory.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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