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There is also a plain of Aega bordering on Cirrha, according to
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Cirrha; Apollothemis says, after he had come to Elis; Timaeus and
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The so-called First Sacred War (600-590 B.C.) was a crusade of ten years carried on by the Amphictyons against the cities of Crissa and Cirrha for their robbery of the treasures of the Delphian temple.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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Fragment #29 -- Stephanus of Byzantium: There is also a plain of Aega bordering on Cirrha, according to Hesiod.
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He answered, pausing awhile from the fray: 'Long since, lord of Cirrha, the trembling axle told me that 'twas thou sat'st by my doomed steeds.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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And immediately afterwards, having collected a force and crossed the Pass, ostensibly on his way to the territory of Cirrha, he bids a long farewell to the
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912
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On the ascent to the temple from Cirrha, before reaching the part covered with buildings, the path, which is so narrow that passengers can only go in single file, has a wall running close to it on the left hand, and on the right a landslip has left an abrupt descent of some depth.
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They had been crossing from Sicyon to Cirrha, when they were taken aback by a squall from the north-west, and capsized in mid-channel.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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Had he hated Phalaris, or scorned his gift, it had been easy for him to sink the gift and the ship that bore it in mid-ocean; instead, we learn that he vouchsafed them a calm passage and a safe arrival at Cirrha.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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The original relations between Crissa, Cirrha, and Delphi, were in this manner at length subverted, the first declining and the two latter rising.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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