 ... and the enemy paid no attention to these movements, because they did not expect them. But in the night there happened an eclipse of the moon, at which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic, either through ignorance or superstition....  Plutarch's Lives - Page 258by Plutarch - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Plutarchus - 1810 - 746 pages
...they did not expect them. But in the night there happened an eclipse: of the moon, at which Nicias and all the rest, either through ignorance or superstition,...struck with a great panic. As for an eclipse of the sun,-which happens at the conjunction, even the common people had some idea of its bemg caused by the... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1813 - 522 pages
...which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic, either through ignorance or superstition. As for an eclipse of the sun, which happens at the...interposition of the moon; but they could not easily form a conception by the interposition of what body, the moon, when at the full, should suddenly lose... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 538 pages
...because they did not expect them. But in the night there happened an eclipse of the moon, at which Nicias and all the rest, either through ignorance or superstition,...conjunction, even the common people had some idea of it's being caused by the interposition of the moon. But they could not easily conceive by the interposition... | |
 | Plutarch - 1821 - 332 pages
...which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic, either through ignorance or superstition. As for an eclipse of the sun, which happens at the...interposition of the moon : but they could not easily form a conception, by the interposition of what body, the moon, when at the full, should suddenly lose... | |
 | Plutarch - 1828 - 484 pages
...which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic, either through ignorance or superstition. As for an eclipse of the sun, which happens at the...conjunction, even the common people had some idea of its being'caused by the interposition of the moon. But they could not easily form a conception by the interposition... | |
 | Plutarch - 1832 - 360 pages
...which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic, either through ignorance or superstition. As for an eclipse of the sun, which happens at the...interposition of the moon. But they could not easily form a conception, by the interposition of what body, the moon, when at the full, should suddenly lose... | |
 | University of Oxford. Chancellor's Prizes - 1833 - 264 pages
...were preparing for embarkation, there happened in the night an eclipse of the Moon, at which Nicias and all the rest, either through ignorance or superstition, were struck with a great panic. Verse 83. When Demosthenes appeared before the port of Syracuse, to reinforce the army of Nicias, the... | |
 | Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough - 1905
...which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic, either through ignorance or superstition. As for an eclipse of the sun, which happens at the...interposition of the moon. But they could not easily form a conception by the interposition of what body the moon, when at the full, should suddenly lose... | |
 | Plutarch - 1841 - 790 pages
...all the rest were struck with a great panic; either through ignorance or superstition. As for «л eclipse of the sun, which happens at the conjunction, even the common people bad some idea of us being caused by the interposition of the moon; but they could not easily form a... | |
 | Plutarch - 1860 - 718 pages
...which Nicias and all the rest were struck with a great panic; either through ignorance or superstition. As for an eclipse of the sun, which happens at the...caused by the interposition of the moon; but they conld not easily form a conception, by the interposition of what body the moon, when at the full, should... | |
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