Greece would have been a refuge for Antonius if defeated, or a support to him in attacking Italy, which at present, being not only arrayed in arms, but embellished by the military command and authority and troops of Marcus Brutus stretches out her right hand to Italy, and promises it her protection.

The Greece of Venezelos was the ward of the Entente almost more than Poland itself.

But as Greece was a small and distant country, its memorable contest was not invested with the interest felt for battles on a larger scale, and which more directly affected the interests of other nations.

The bloody war of 1912-1913 between Turkey and the allied armies of Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro, and Greece was the result of this mistake.

Rome's experiment is sometimes called Graeco-Roman civilization because Greece and Italy were close geographical neighbors and also because Greek culture, which reached its zenith by 500 B.C. and was closely paralleled by the rise of Roman culture, had a profound effect in determining the total character of Roman civilization.

Ancient Greece, with her indented coast, inviting to maritime adventures, from her earliest period was the mother of heroes in war, of poets in song, of sculptors and artists, and stands up after the lapse of centuries the educator of mankind, living in the grandeur of her works and in the immortal productions of minds which modern civilization with all its cultivation and refinement and science never surpassed and scarcely equalled.

GREECE AND THE LEAGUE King George himself was a ruler of large experience, of great practical wisdom, and of fine diplomatic skill.

Now Greece is a limited monarchy.

It would not be surprising if Greece were any day now to follow the example of Roumania.

From the facts which have come to our knowledge there is good cause to believe that their enemy has lost forever all dominion over them; that Greece will become again an independent nation.

So long as Turkey was there, Greece was practically an island, and her only communication with continental Europe lay through her ports.

Possibly Greece may yet be the renewed seat of a Greek empire, under the protection of the Western nations, as a barrier to Russian encroachments around the Black Sea.

Mr. Pococke will have it that Greece was a migrated India: it was, of course, a migration from some place that first planted the Hellenic stock in Europe; but if the man who carved the Zeus, and built the Parthenon, and wrote the "Prometheus" and the "Phaedrus," were a copy, where shall we find the original?

Greece was a prey to factionsrepublican, monarchic, aristocraticrepresenting naval, military, and territorial interests, and each beset by the adventurers who flock round every movement, only representing their own.

Nor is Greece a serious candidate for the vacant post.

Greece becomes a Roman province.

The British monarch shall the glory have, That famous Greece remains no longer slave; That source of art and cultivated thought!

King George of Greece assassinated; Greece became the chief state of the eastern Mediterranean.