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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt:...described in the text: Et crebris legimut freta consita terris. Virg. Jeneid. iii. v. 129.. Polybius seems to consider the battle of Cnidus as the sera at which the Spartans lost the command of the sea, which they had acquired by their victory at iEgos.Potamos. He says, their dominion lasted twelve years. This number, however, is too large for the interval between those battles, as appears from the text. Other writers say, that the Lacedaemonian empire, which the Greeks, speak of as synonymous with the command of the sea, lasted thirty years, reckoning from the battle of gos-Potamos to the defeat at Leuctra. But this number again is too small for the interval between those events; a remarkable proof of the carelessness of Greek writers in matters of chronology. See Isocrat. de Pace, & Causaub. ad Polyb. vol. iii. p. 97--99. edit. Gronov. and set the example of performing this pious duty. The devout stratagem was attended with a very salutary effect; for, in a skirmish between the advanced guards, immediately preceding the battle, the Lacedsemonian troops, animated by their imagined victory in the East, defeated and repelled the enemy. Meanwhile, the main bodies of either army advanced into the plain of Coronsea, at first in awful silence; but having approached within a furlong of each other, the Thebans raised an universal shout, and ran furiously to the charge. Their impetuosity bore down every thing before them; but the troops immediately commanded by Agesilaus, repelled the left wing of the enemy, consisting chiefly of Argives and Athenians. Already those who surrounded his person saluted him as conqueror and adorned him with the crown of victory; when it was told, that the Thebans had broke and totally routed the Orchomenians, and were advancing to...