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Plutarch, Cimon, 17.1


ἐπεὶ δὲ βοηθήσας τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἀπῄει διὰ Κορίνθου τὴν στρατιὰν ἄγων, ἐνεκάλει Λάχαρτος αὐτῷ πρὶν ἐντυχεῖν τοῖς πολίταις εἰσαγαγόντι τὸ στράτευμα· καὶ γὰρ θύραν κόψαντας ἀλλοτρίαν οὐκ εἰσιέναι πρότερον ἢ τὸν κύριον κελεῦσαι. καὶ ὁ Κίμων ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὑμεῖς, εἶπεν, ὦ Λάχαρτε, τὰς Κλεωναίων καὶ Μεγαρέων πύλας κόψαντες, ἀλλὰ κατασχίσαντες εἰσεβιάσασθε μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἀξιοῦντες ἀνεῳγέναι πάντα τοῖς μεῖζον δυναμένοις. οὕτω μὲν ἐθρασύνατο πρὸς τὸν Κορίνθιον ἐν δέοντι, καὶ μετὰ τῆς στρατιᾶς διεξῆλθεν. After he had given aid to the Lacedaemonians, he was going back home with his forces through the Isthmus of Corinth, when Lachartus upbraided him for having introduced his army before he had conferred with the citizens. "People who knock at doors," said he, "do not go in before the owner bids them"; to which Cimon replied, "And yet you Corinthians, O Lachartus, did not so much as knock at the gates of Cleonae and Megara, but hewed them down and forced your way in under arms, demanding that everything be opened up to the stronger." Such was his boldness of speech to the Corinthian in an emergency, and he passed on through with his forces.


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army Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
assembly, athenian (ekklesia) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
boeotia, boeotians Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
cimon Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110, 113
debate Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
demos (damos) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110, 113
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festivals, civic Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
foreign policy Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
helots Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110, 113
hoplites Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110, 113
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kings Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
mass, masses Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
ostracism Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
participation in government, by all citizens Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
pay, for attending the assembly, for jurors Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
pay, for attending the assembly, for state service Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
pericles Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
persuasion Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
plutarch Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110, 113
politeia Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110, 113
reform Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
revolution Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
tanagra Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
thucydides Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
tyranny, tyrants Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
warfare Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113
wealth' Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 110
xerxes Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 113