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'One of the finest landscapes that ancient art has produced, the work of a really great mind,' Mr Ruskin distinguishes the 'Phocian' of Nicolas Poussin in the
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870
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In 348 the weary Thebans called on Philip to join them and crush the Phocian rebels once and for all.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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In 348 the weary Thebans called on Philip to join them and crush the Phocian rebels once and for all.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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In 348 the weary Thebans called on Philip to join them and crush the Phocian rebels once and for all.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against Cicero, — that is an uprising; Paris against the Bastille, — that is insurrection.
Les Miserables 2008
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Meantime his accomplice, the Phocian miscreant, was off on other business.
Orestes 2008
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Meantime his accomplice, the Phocian miscreant, was off on other business.
Orestes 2008
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