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Thucydides, The History Of The Peloponnesian War, 5.52-5.54


nanAfter the battle Heraclea was so terribly reduced that in the first days of the summer following the Boeotians occupied the place and sent away the Lacedaemonian Agesippidas for misgovernment, fearing that the town might be taken by the Athenians while the Lacedaemonians were distracted with the affairs of Peloponnese. The Lacedaemonians, nevertheless, were offended with them for what they had done. 2 The same summer Alcibiades, son of Clinias, now one of the generals at Athens, in concert with the Argives and the allies, went into Peloponnese with a few Athenian heavy infantry and archers, and some of the allies in those parts whom he took up as he passed, and with this army marched here and there through Peloponnese, and settled various matters connected with the alliance, and among other things induced the Patrians to carry their walls down to the sea, intending himself also to build a fort near the Achaean Rhium. However, the Corinthians and Sicyonians, and all others who would have suffered by its being built, came up and hindered him.


nannan,After the battle Heraclea was so terribly reduced that in the first days of the summer following the Boeotians occupied the place and sent away the Lacedaemonian Agesippidas for misgovernment, fearing that the town might be taken by the Athenians while the Lacedaemonians were distracted with the affairs of Peloponnese . The Lacedaemonians, nevertheless, were offended with them for what they had done. , The same summer Alcibiades, son of Clinias, now one of the generals at Athens, in concert with the Argives and the allies, went into Peloponnese with a few Athenian heavy infantry and archers, and some of the allies in those parts whom he took up as he passed, and with this army marched here and there through Peloponnese, and settled various matters connected with the alliance, and among other things induced the Patrians to carry their walls down to the sea, intending himself also to build a fort near the Achaean Rhium. However, the Corinthians and Sicyonians, and all others who would have suffered by its being built, came up and hindered him.


nanThe same summer war broke out between the Epidaurians and Argives. The pretext was that the Epidaurians did not send an offering for their pasture-land to Apollo Pythaeus, as they were bound to do, the Argives having the chief management of the sanctuary; but, apart from this pretext, Alcibiades and the Argives were determined, if possible, to gain possession of Epidaurus, and thus to insure the neutrality of Corinth and give the Athenians a shorter passage for their reinforcement from Aegina than if they had to sail round Scyllaeum. The Argives accordingly prepared to invade Epidaurus by themselves, to exact the offering.


nannan, The same summer war broke out between the Epidaurians and Argives. The pretext was that the Epidaurians did not send an offering for their pasture-land to Apollo Pythaeus, as they were bound to do, the Argives having the chief management of the temple; but, apart from this pretext, Alcibiades and the Argives were determined, if possible, to gain possession of Epidaurus, and thus to insure the neutrality of Corinth and give the Athenians a shorter passage for their reinforcement from Aegina than if they had to sail round Scyllaeum. The Argives accordingly prepared to invade Epidaurus by themselves, to exact the offering.


nanAbout the same time the Lacedaemonians marched out with all their people to Leuctra upon their frontier, opposite to Mount Lycaeum, under the command of Agis, son of Archidamus, without any one knowing their destination, not even the cities that sent the contingents. 2 The sacrifices, however, for crossing the frontier not proving propitious, the Lacedaemonians returned home themselves, and sent word to the allies to be ready to march after the month ensuing, which happened to be the month of Carneus, a holy time for the Dorians. 3 Upon the retreat of the Lacedaemonians the Argives marched out on the last day but three of the month before Carneus, and keeping this as the day during the whole time that they were out, invaded and plundered Epidaurus. 4 The Epidaurians summoned their allies to their aid, some of whom pleaded the month as an excuse; others came as far as the frontier of Epidaurus and there remained inactive.


nannan, About the same time the Lacedaemonians marched out with all their people to Leuctra upon their frontier, opposite to Mount Lycaeum, under the command of Agis, son of Archidamus, without any one knowing their destination, not even the cities that sent the contingents. ,The sacrifices, however, for crossing the frontier not proving propitious, the Lacedaemonians returned home themselves, and sent word to the allies to be ready to march after the month ensuing, which happened to be the month of Carneus, a holy time for the Dorians. ,Upon the retreat of the Lacedaemonians the Argives marched out on the last day but three of the month before Carneus, and keeping this as the day during the whole time that they were out, invaded and plundered Epidaurus . ,The Epidaurians summoned their allies to their aid, some of whom pleaded the month as an excuse; others came as far as the frontier of Epidaurus and there remained inactive.


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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 5.1, 5.11, 5.13, 5.16, 5.18-5.19, 5.23-5.24, 5.26-5.28, 5.43-5.44, 5.46, 5.53-5.54, 5.56-5.57, 5.70, 5.82-5.83, 5.87, 5.97, 5.102-5.105, 5.113, 7.11-7.15, 8.10, 8.12, 8.14-8.19, 8.35-8.37, 8.44-8.49, 8.52-8.56, 8.66, 8.81-8.82, 8.84, 8.86, 8.89, 8.97 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.7.16-1.7.33 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.7.16. After this Euryptolemus mounted the platform and spoke as follows in defence of the generals: I have come to the platform, men of Athens, partly to accuse Pericles, though he is my kinsman and intimate, and Diomedon, who is my friend, partly 406 B.C. to speak in their defence, and partly to advise the measures which seem to me to be best for the state as a whole.
3. Plutarch, Nicias, 9.9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



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aison Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
alcibiades Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35; Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 22
alciphron Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
aristotle Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 25
diogenes laertius Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 14
lesbos Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
lichas, son of arcesilaus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
marcellinus Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 24, 25
nicias, and sophocles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
nicias Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 24
peace of nicias Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
politician, sophocles as Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
schwartz, e. Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 25, 28
seneca, philosopher and poet Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 14
sicilian expedition Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 23, 621
sicily, niciass expedition to Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
skaptesyle Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 24, 25
skirphondas Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
sparta, vs. athens Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
strategia, of sophocles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
strategos, sophocles as Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
thespiae Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
thrace Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 24
thrasyl(l)os Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 621
thucydides, son of melesias, book-division Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 23, 24
thucydides, son of melesias, chronology Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 28
thucydides, son of melesias, death Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 23
thucydides, son of melesias, documents, letters, treaties etc. Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 22
thucydides, son of melesias, editor, editions in antiquity Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 14, 25
thucydides, son of melesias, exile Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 25
treaty, of nicias Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 35
vergil, aeneid Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 24
vergil Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 24
xenophon, anabasis Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 25
xenophon, hellenica' Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 14
xenophon Rengakos and Tsakmakis, Brill's Companion to Thucydides (2006) 14, 25