Thrasybulus
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The proposition for a truce resulted in a permanent peace, by means of a very singular stratagem which Thrasybulus, the king of Miletus, practiced upon Alyattes.
From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Spirit of Freedom! when on Phyle's brow Thou sat'st with Thrasybulus and his train, Couldst thou forebode the dismal hour which now Dims the green beauties of thine Attic plain?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
Next to the south, some miles nearer, is the even more famous pass of Phyle, from which Thrasybulus and his brave fellows recovered Athens and its liberty.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
Immediately after the downfall of Thrasybulus an assembly was convened, in which it was debated concerning the constitution.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
This was, in fact, the case; but Thrasybulus determined to disguise his real condition, and to destroy, by an artifice, all the hopes which Alyattes had formed from the supposed scarcity in the city.
From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
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