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She had read it in a book the same day, I'm sure of it." "Yes," says Eva; "but what of it?" "And as far as I remember, she said, too, that Asop had Xanthus for his teacher. Hahaha!" "Yes?" "Well, what the devil is the sense of telling a crowd of people that Asop had Xanthus for his teacher? I ask you. Oh, you are not in the mood to-day, Eva, or you would laugh till your sides ached at that."
This eventful history gives an interest to the country that has excited the curiosity of the learned for ages. The period of its greatest prosperity ensued upon its being reconquered by Alexander, when it included no less than seventy cities, of which Xanthus was the capital. Of all these cities, only scattered ruins under Turkish villages now remain.
First, the Artificial Greatness of Athens not supported by Natural Strength. Secondly, her pernicious Reliance on Tribute. Fourthly, Defects in Popular Courts of Law. Progress of General Education. History. Its Ionian Origin. Early Historians. Acusilaus. Cadmus. Eugeon. Hellanicus. Pherecides. Xanthus. View of the Life and Writings of Herodotus. Progress of Philosophy since Thales.
All were eager to be bought by Xanthus because they knew he would be a kind master. So each one boasted of his skill in doing some sort of labor. One was a fine gardener; another could take care of horses; a third was a good cook; a fourth could manage a household. "And what can you do, Aesop?" asked Xanthus. "Nothing," he answered. "Nothing? How is that?"
So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires.
The collection of sculpture now popularly known as the Xanthian marbles, are a few ruins gleaned from the rocky eminence which is the site of ancient Xanthus.
'Such words she poured forth weeping, and prolonged the vain wail; when the hero Helenus son of Priam approaches from the town with a great company, knows us for his kin, and leads us joyfully to his gates, shedding a many tears at every word. I advance and recognise a little Troy, and a copy of the great Pergama, and a dry brook with the name of Xanthus, and clasp a Scaean gateway.
Off to the southeast, just at the edge of the Mare Australe, was a valley the first irregularity I'd seen on Mars except the cliffs that bounded Xanthus and Thyle II. We flew over the valley " Jarvis paused suddenly and shuddered; Leroy, whose color had begun to return, seemed to pale. The chemist resumed, "Well, the valley looked all right then!
The charge seems to have been first made either by Xanthus the Lydian, or by Ctesias. It was accepted, probably without much inquiry, by the Greeks generally, and then by the Romans, was repeated by writer after writer as a certain fact, and became finally a stock topic with the early Christian apologists. Whether it had any real foundation in fact is very uncertain.
Meanwhile he himself with a chosen body proceeded along the coasts of Lycia and Pamphylia, having instructed Parmenio to rejoin him in Phrygia in the spring, with the main body. After he had crossed the Xanthus most of the Lycian towns tendered their submission.
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