. The Burton Holmes lectures;. GRECIAN JOURNEYS 121 vEgina was the home of the richest and most enterprising-merchants of the old Greek world ; merchants, whose fleetstraded in far seas. It cost Athens many years of warfare tosubjugate this hostile state, a mere island but a score ofmiles away and within sight of the Athenian , is it not, to lind the Greek world geographically sosmall ? But these small states were mighty, in anothersense ; for when presently we pass the isle of Salamis, weremember that the fleets of little yEgina bore themselvesbravest of all in that great nav
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. GRECIAN JOURNEYS 121 vEgina was the home of the richest and most enterprising-merchants of the old Greek world ; merchants, whose fleetstraded in far seas. It cost Athens many years of warfare tosubjugate this hostile state, a mere island but a score ofmiles away and within sight of the Athenian , is it not, to lind the Greek world geographically sosmall ? But these small states were mighty, in anothersense ; for when presently we pass the isle of Salamis, weremember that the fleets of little yEgina bore themselvesbravest of all in that great naval battle of antiquity. These
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