Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabis
Literary usage of Nabis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... nabis—A Semitic on the Rampage in Greece—How A Slave of the Conquests Overwhelmed
his Oppressors—Chilon the Wise Inventor of an Unwise Measure—The ..."
2. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"nabis at Argos. of his reputation. He at first affected to decline the i ...
The Roman required that nabis should make peace with the Achaeans and send ..."
3. The Ancient History of the Egyptians: Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1774)
"... was commanded to have an eye on nabis, and they were particularly vigilant
over all ... a tyrant (nabis) more avaricious and cruel than any of his ..."
4. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"nabis, tyrant of the Lacedaemonians; who, on the command being transferred ...
as far as concerned nabis and the Lacedemonians ; and that he would not only ..."
5. Lectures on Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of by Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1852)
"nabis was still in possession of Argos, which, as I have already stated, had,
during the Macedonian war, been surrendered to him by the Macedonian commander ..."
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