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2178 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   Cratippus, a contemporary of Thucydides, who also collected what Thucydides had omitted, ascribes this book to Thucydides, remarking at the same time that he has introduced no speeches in it. (22.04)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   " The line of attack also, which Plutarch represents Thucydides as adopting, does not appear to have been the most judicious, for he inveighed against the profuse expenditure of Pericles in public works, by no means the least popular feature in the great statesman's administration, and not long after this the struggle came to an end by the ostracism of Thucydides in B. C. 444. (17.62)

3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte) alphabetic letter B
   Thucydides tells us (ii. 15) that before the time of Theseus every Attic city had its (15.60)

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1 from Renaissance Materials

1. E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearean Grammar section 1
   Taking the very lowest ground, I believe that an intelligent study of English is the shortest and safest way to attain to an intelligent and successful study of Latin and Greek, and that it is idle to expect a boy to grapple with a sentence of Plato or Thucydides if he cannot master a passage of Shakespeare or a couplet of Pope. (1.55)

12 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter N, entry 22266
   translator of Thucydides; a goldsmith; translated Thucydides from Seyssel's French version, 1550. [xli. (7.88)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 7294
   scholar; educated at Marlborough and University College, Oxford; B.A., 1866; fellow of Worcester College, 1866-80; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1869; translated Thucydides, 1866-74, and wrote in verse and prose. (5.97)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter S, entry 28825
   translator from the Greek; M.A. New College, Oxford, 1737; D.D., 1758; became dean of Chester, 1758; published translations of Longinus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, all now superseded. [liii. (4.26)

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2 from American Memory: California

1. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming page 4
   THUCYDIDES. (4.98)

2. Pioneer notes from the diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875 page 250
   One should carefully read Thucydides in these times. (2.81)

1 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Historical collections. Collections and researches made by the Michigan pioneer and historical society ... Reprinted by authority of the Board of state auditors. Volume 11 page 4
   We have not essayed to write history, but have confined our labors to collecting materials and putting them in shape for permanent preservation for future use; acting as it were as logographers, preparing the way for some future Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon or Tacitus. (2.17)

1 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Mary Clemmer, Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a woman sees them page 119
   The weight of gold which she carried, says Thucydides, was forty talents. (2.81)

1 from Tufts University History

1. Russell E. Miller, Light on the Hill, Volume I chapter 4, section 4
   Professor Schneider's classes in Greek for freshman and sophomores read from Thucydides, Plato, Lucian, Herodotus, and Sophocles and periodically wrote short prose compositions. (2.96)