1. Solon, Fragments, 2, 1 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
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2. Antiphon, Orations, 6.42 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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3. Herodotus, Histories, 6.59, 7.15, 7.151 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 6.59. The Lacedaemonians also resemble the Persians in this: when one king is dead and another takes his office, this successor releases from debt any Spartan who owes a debt to the king or to the commonwealth. Among the Persians the king at the beginning of his reign forgives all cities their arrears of tribute. 7.15. Greatly frightened by the vision, Xerxes leapt up from his bed, and sent a messenger to summon Artabanus. When he came, Xerxes said, “Artabanus, for a moment I was of unsound mind, and I answered your good advice with foolish words; but after no long time I repented, and saw that it was right for me to follow your advice. ,Yet, though I desire to, I cannot do it; ever since I turned back and repented, a vision keeps coming to haunt my sight, and it will not allow me to do as you advise; just now it has threatened me and gone. ,Now if a god is sending the vision, and it is his full pleasure that there this expedition against Hellas take place, that same dream will hover about you and give you the same command it gives me. I believe that this is most likely to happen, if you take all my apparel and sit wearing it upon my throne, and then lie down to sleep in my bed.” 7.151. This is borne out, some of the Greeks say, by the tale of a thing which happened many years afterwards. It happened that while Athenian envoys, Callias son of Hipponicus, and the rest who had come up with him, were at Susa, called the Memnonian, about some other business, the Argives also had at this same time sent envoys to Susa, asking of Xerxes' son Artoxerxes whether the friendship which they had forged with Xerxes still held good, as they desired, or whether he considered them as his enemies. Artoxerxes responded to this that it did indeed hold good and that he believed no city to be a better friend to him than Argos.” |
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4. Isocrates, Orations, 4.147, 4.149, 12.106 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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5. Lysias, Orations, 26.8 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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6. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 56.2-56.3 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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7. Demosthenes, Orations, 22.6 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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8. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 13.85, 13.398 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 13.85. And when the captains had thus done, those that were prepared to accuse Jonathan, and who bore him ill-will, when they saw the honor that was done him by proclamation, and that by the king’s order, ran away, and were afraid lest some mischief should befall them. Nay, king Alexander was so very kind to Jonathan, that he set him down as the principal of his friends. 13.398. 5. After this, king Alexander, although he fell into a distemper by hard drinking, and had a quartan ague, which held him three years, yet would not leave off going out with his army, till he was quite spent with the labors he had undergone, and died in the bounds of Ragaba, a fortress beyond Jordan. |
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9. Andocides, Orations, 1.77
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10. Andocides, Orations, 1.77
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