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but finally decided to inter him somewhere near. But
the god at Delphi afterwards ordered the Lacedaemonians to remove
the tomb to the place of his death- where he now lies in the consecrated
ground, as an inscription on a monument declares- and, as what had
been done was a curse to them, to give back two bodies instea... | {
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on friendly terms.
Admetus happened not to be indoors, but his wife, to whom he made
himself a suppliant, instructed him to take their child in his arms
and sit down by the hearth. Soon afterwards Admetus came in, and Themistocles
told him who he was, and begged him not to revenge on Themistocles
in exile any oppositio... | {
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even to its most distant possibilities.
An able theoretical expositor of all that came within the sphere of
his practice, he was not without the power of passing an adequate
judgment in matters in which he had no experience. He could also excellently
divine the good and evil which lay hid in the unseen future. In fine,... | {
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bar; but as they were soon observed only a
few succeeded in getting out. Others were cut off in detail in different
parts of the city. The most numerous and compact body rushed into
a large building next to the city wall: the doors on the side of the
street happened to be open, and the Thebans fancied that they were
th... | {
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had been made in time of peace, and
was perfectly unexpected, there were of course men and stock in the
fields; and the Thebans wished if possible to have some prisoners
to exchange against their countrymen in the town, should any chance
to have been taken alive. Such was their plan. But the Plataeans suspected
their i... | {
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immediately after its occurrence,
had instantly seized all the Boeotians in Attica, and sent a herald
to the Plataeans to forbid their proceeding to extremities with their
Theban prisoners without instructions from Athens. The news of the
men's death had of course not arrived; the first messenger having
left Plataea ju... | {
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that if these could be relied on she could carry the war
all round Peloponnese.
And if both sides nourished the boldest hopes and put forth their
utmost strength for the war, this was only natural. Zeal is always
at its height at the commencement of an undertaking; and on this particular
occasion Peloponnese and Athens... | {
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in the same strain as before. They were to
prepare for the war, and to carry in their property from the country.
They were not to go out to battle, but to come into the city and guard
it, and get ready their fleet, in which their real strength lay. They
were also to keep a tight rein on their allies- the strength of At... | {
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horse including mounted archers, with sixteen hundred
archers unmounted, and three hundred galleys fit for service. Such
were the resources of Athens in the different departments when the
Peloponnesian invasion was impending and hostilities were being commenced.
Pericles also urged his usual arguments for expecting a f... | {
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the month of Anthesterion not
only by the Athenians but also by their Ionian descendants. There
are also other ancient temples in this quarter. The fountain too,
which, since the alteration made by the tyrants, has been called Enneacrounos,
or Nine Pipes, but which, when the spring was open, went by the name
of Callirh... | {
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other Places as were always kept closed. The occupation of
the plot of ground lying below the citadel called the Pelasgian had
been forbidden by a curse; and there was also an ominous fragment
of a Pythian oracle which said:
Leave the Pelasgian parcel desolate,
Woe worth the day that men inhabit it! Yet this too was no... | {
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time of war. So the Peloponnesians prepared for their assault,
and wasted some valuable time before the place. This delay brought
the gravest censure upon Archidamus. Even during the levying of the
war he had credit for weakness and Athenian sympathies by the half
measures he had advocated; and after the army had assem... | {
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the Athenian demes or townships. Sitting
down before it, they formed a camp there, and continued their ravages
for a long while.
The reason why Archidamus remained in order of battle at Acharnae
during this incursion, instead of descending into the plain, is said
to have been this. He hoped that the Athenians might pos... | {
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Attica with a Peloponnesian army fourteen years before,
but had retreated without advancing farther than Eleusis and Thria,
which indeed proved the cause of his exile from Sparta, as it was
thought he had been bribed to retreat. But when they saw the army
at Acharnae, barely seven miles from Athens, they lost all patie... | {
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Accordingly he addressed himself to
the defence of the city, and kept it as quiet as possible, though
he constantly sent out cavalry to prevent raids on the lands near
the city from flying parties of the enemy. There was a trifling affair
at Phrygia between a squadron of the Athenian horse with the Thessalians
and the ... | {
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territory of Graea, which is
held by the Oropians from Athens, and reaching Peloponnese broke up
to their respective cities.
After they had retired the Athenians set guards by land and sea at
the points at which they intended to have regular stations during
the war. They also resolved to set apart a special fund of a t... | {
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army of the Athenians, which
was scattered over the country and had its attention turned to the
wall, threw himself into Methone. He lost a few men in making good
his entrance, but saved the place and won the thanks of Sparta by
his exploit, being thus the first officer who obtained this notice
during the war. The Athe... | {
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ground of their having
been the chief agents in bringing the war upon them. Besides, Aegina
lies so near Peloponnese that it seemed safer to send colonists of
their own to hold it, and shortly afterwards the settlers were sent
out. The banished Aeginetans found an asylum in Thyrea, which was
given to them by Lacedaemon... | {
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from Athens; nor indeed did they belong to the same part of
Thrace. Tereus lived in Daulis, part of what is now called Phocis,
but which at that time was inhabited by Thracians. It was in this
land that the women perpetrated the outrage upon Itys; and many of
the poets when they mention the nightingale call it the Daul... | {
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the
place for their confederacy. Next they sailed to the island of Cephallenia
and brought it over without using force. Cephallenia lies off Acarnania
and Leucas, and consists of four states, the Paleans, Cranians, Samaeans,
and Pronaeans. Not long afterwards the fleet returned to Athens. Towards
the autumn of this yea... | {
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to return to
Astacus, persuaded the Corinthians to sail over with forty ships and
fifteen hundred heavy infantry and restore him; himself also hiring
some mercenaries. In command of the force were Euphamidas, son of
Aristonymus, Timoxenus, son of Timocrates, and Eumachus, son of Chrysis,
who sailed over and restored hi... | {
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among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken
out in many places previously in the neighbourhood of Lemnos and elsewhere;
but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered.
Neither were the physicians at first of any service, ignorant as they
were of the proper way to treat it, but they died th... | {
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the congratulations
of others, but themselves also, in the elation of the moment, half
entertained the vain hope that they were for the future safe from
any disease whatsoever.
An aggravation of the existing calamity was the influx from the country
into the city, and this was especially felt by the new arrivals. As
the... | {
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Paralian
region as far as Laurium, where the Athenian silver mines are, and
first laid waste the side looking towards Peloponnese, next that which
faces Euboea and Andros. But Pericles, who was still general, held
the same opinion as in the former invasion, and would not let the
Athenians march out against them.
Howeve... | {
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disorder; as they heard from deserters that it was in
the city, and also could see the burials going on. Yet in this invasion
they remained longer than in any other, and ravaged the whole country,
for they were about forty days in Attica.
The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias,
the collea... | {
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orders had lost fine properties with costly establishments
and buildings in the country, and, worst of all, had war instead of
peace. In fact, the public feeling against him did not subside until
he had been fined. Not long afterwards, however, according to the
way of the multitude, they again elected him general and c... | {
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control over the
multitude- in short, to lead them instead of being led by them; for
as he never sought power by improper means, he was never compelled
to flatter them, but, on the contrary, enjoyed so high an estimation
that he could afford to anger them by contradiction. Whenever he saw
them unseasonably and insolent... | {
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at last by the King's son, Cyrus, who furnished the funds for
the Peloponnesian navy. Nor did they finally succumb till they fell
the victims of their own intestine disorders. So superfluously abundant
were the resources from which the genius of Pericles foresaw an easy
triumph in the war over the unaided forces of the... | {
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to the King and doing their part to injure
the country of his choice. He accordingly had them seized, as they
were travelling through Thrace to the vessel in which they were to
cross the Hellespont, by a party whom he had sent on with Learchus
and Ameiniades, and gave orders for their delivery to the Athenian
ambassado... | {
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country. This was the largest town in Amphilochia,
and its inhabitants the most powerful. Under the pressure of misfortune
many generations afterwards, they called in the Ambraciots, their
neighbours on the Amphilochian border, to join their colony; and it
was by this union with the Ambraciots that they learnt their pr... | {
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adjoining continent. However,
Melesander, going up the country into Lycia with a force of Athenians
from the ships and the allies, was defeated and killed in battle,
with the loss of a number of his troops.
The same winter the Potidaeans at length found themselves no longer
able to hold out against their besiegers. The... | {
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cut down, to prevent further egress from Plataea; next they threw
up a mound against the city, hoping that the largeness of the force
employed would ensure the speedy reduction of the place. They accordingly
cut down timber from Cithaeron, and built it up on either side, laying
it like lattice-work to serve as a wall t... | {
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in the mound, in order to
give it consistency and prevent its being carried away like the soil.
Stopped in this way the Plataeans changed their mode of operation,
and digging a mine from the town calculated their way under the mound,
and began to carry off its material as before. This went on for a
long while without t... | {
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either extremity of two poles
laid on the wall and projecting over it, and drew them up at an angle
whenever any point was threatened by the engine, and loosing their
hold let the beam go with its chains slack, so that it fell with a
run and snapped off the nose of the battering ram.
After this the Peloponnesians, find... | {
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of proving fatal to the Plataeans; a great part
of the town became entirely inaccessible, and had a wind blown upon
it, in accordance with the hopes of the enemy, nothing could have
saved them. As it was, there is also a story of heavy rain and thunder
having come on by which the fire was put out and the danger averted... | {
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Euripides, with two colleagues. Arriving before Spartolus in
Bottiaea, they destroyed the corn and had some hopes of the city coming
over through the intrigues of a faction within. But those of a different
way of thinking had sent to Olynthus; and a garrison of heavy infantry
and other troops arrived accordingly. These... | {
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Acarnania and detaching it
from Athens, persuaded the Lacedaemonians to equip a fleet from their
confederacy and send a thousand heavy infantry to Acarnania, representing
that, if a combined movement were made by land and sea, the coast
Acarnanians would be unable to march, and the conquest of Zacynthus
and Cephallenia... | {
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Tharyps who was still a minor, and some Paravaeans,
under their king Oroedus, accompanied by a thousand Orestians, subjects
of King Antichus and placed by him under the command of Oroedus. There
were also a thousand Macedonians sent by Perdiccas without the knowledge
of the Athenians, but they arrived too late. With th... | {
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tribes of that part of the continent,
without waiting to occupy their camp, rushed on with the rest of the
barbarians, in the idea that they should take the town by assault
and obtain the sole glory of the enterprise. While they were coming
on, the Stratians, becoming aware how things stood, and thinking that
the defea... | {
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and the Stratians set up a trophy for the
battle with the barbarians.
Meanwhile the fleet from Corinth and the rest of the confederates
in the Crissaean Gulf, which was to have co-operated with Cnemus and
prevented the coast Acarnanians from joining their countrymen in the
interior, was disabled from doing so by being ... | {
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Achaea. The Athenians gave chase and captured
twelve ships, and taking most of the men out of them sailed to Molycrium,
and after setting up a trophy on the promontory of Rhium and dedicating
a ship to Poseidon, returned to Naupactus. As for the Peloponnesians,
they at once sailed with their remaining ships along the c... | {
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Athenians, had persuaded them to sail against
Cydonia, promising to procure the reduction of that hostile town;
his real wish being to oblige the Polichnitans, neighbours of the
Cydonians. He accordingly went with the ships to Crete, and, accompanied
by the Polichnitans, laid waste the lands of the Cydonians; and, what... | {
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them in whether they wished it or not, put out at dawn, and
forming four abreast, sailed inside the gulf in the direction of their
own country, the right wing leading as they had lain at anchor. In
this wing were placed twenty of their best sailers; so that in the
event of Phormio thinking that their object was Naupact... | {
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decks that they had boarded.
Thus far victory was with the Peloponnesians, and the Athenian fleet
destroyed; the twenty ships in the right wing being meanwhile in chase
of the eleven Athenian vessels that had escaped their sudden movement
and reached the more open water. These, with the exception of one
ship, all outsa... | {
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those of their
own which had been disabled close inshore and taken in tow at the
beginning of the action; they killed some of the crews and took some
prisoners. On board the Leucadian which went down off the merchantman,
was the Lacedaemonian Timocrates, who killed himself when the ship
was sunk, and was cast up in the... | {
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they could, and launching forty vessels, which
happened to be in the docks at Nisaea, to sail at once to Piraeus.
There was no fleet on the look-out in the harbour, and no one had
the least idea of the enemy attempting a surprise; while an open attack
would, it was thought, never be deliberately ventured on, or, if in
... | {
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Peloponnesians, on becoming aware of the coming relief, after
they had overrun most of Salamis, hastily sailed off with their plunder
and captives and the three ships from Fort Budorum to Nisaea; the
state of their ships also causing them some anxiety, as it was a long
while since they had been launched, and they were ... | {
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they could get
together.
Beginning with the Odrysians, he first called out the Thracian tribes
subject to him between Mounts Haemus and Rhodope and the Euxine and
Hellespont; next the Getae beyond Haemus, and the other hordes settled
south of the Danube in the neighbourhood of the Euxine, who, like
the Getae, border on... | {
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and the Strymon, the farthest limit of its extension
into the interior, it is a journey of thirteen days for an active
man. The tribute from all the barbarian districts and the Hellenic
cities, taking what they brought in under Seuthes, the successor of
Sitalces, who raised it to its greatest height, amounted to about
... | {
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subsequently by
Archelaus, the son of Perdiccas, on his accession, who also cut straight
roads, and otherwise put the kingdom on a better footing as regards
horses, heavy infantry, and other war material than had been done
by all the eight kings that preceded him. Advancing from Doberus,
the Thracian host first invaded... | {
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other tribes subject
to the Thessalians, and the Hellenes as far as Thermopylae, all feared
that the army might advance against them, and prepared accordingly.
These fears were shared by the Thracians beyond the Strymon to the
north, who inhabited the plains, such as the Panaeans, the Odomanti,
the Droi, and the Dersae... | {
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to Coronta, they
returned to their ships, deciding that it was impossible in the winter
season to march against Oeniadae, a place which, unlike the rest of
Acarnania, had been always hostile to them; for the river Achelous
flowing from Mount Pindus through Dolopia and the country of the Agraeans
and Amphilochians and t... | {
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would not receive
them; and yet now when they did revolt, they were compelled to do
so sooner than they had intended. While they were waiting until the
moles for their harbours and the ships and walls that they had in
building should be finished, and for the arrival of archers and corn
and other things that they were e... | {
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by the whole people of Mitylene, and
at which, if haste were made, they might hope to take them by surprise.
If this plan succeeded, well and good; if not, they were to order
the Mitylenians to deliver up their ships and to pull down their walls,
and if they did not obey, to declare war. The ships accordingly set
out; ... | {
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an armistice
having been concluded, the Mitylenians sent to Athens one of the informers,
already repentant of his conduct, and others with him, to try to persuade
the Athenians of the innocence of their intentions and to get the
fleet recalled. In the meantime, having no great hope of a favourable
answer from Athens, t... | {
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allies to their aid, who came in all the quicker
from seeing so little vigour displayed by the Lesbians, and bringing
round their ships to a new station to the south of the town, fortified
two camps, one on each side of the city, and instituted a blockade
of both the harbours. The sea was thus closed against the Mityle... | {
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was not imitated by the rest of the confederates, who
came in but slowly, being engaged in harvesting their corn and sick
of making expeditions.
Meanwhile the Athenians, aware that the preparations of the enemy
were due to his conviction of their weakness, and wishing to show
him that he was mistaken, and that they wer... | {
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both sides,
by land and by sea; and winter now drew near.
The Athenians needing money for the siege, although they had for the
first time raised a contribution of two hundred talents from their
own citizens, now sent out twelve ships to levy subsidies from their
allies, with Lysicles and four others in command. After c... | {
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but could see it easily enough for their purpose. The length
required for the ladders was thus obtained, being calculated from
the breadth of the brick.
Now the wall of the Peloponnesians was constructed as follows. It
consisted of two lines drawn round the place, one against the Plataeans,
the other against any attack... | {
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only the left foot shod to preserve them from slipping
in the mire. They came up to the battlements at one of the intermediate
spaces where they knew them to be unguarded: those who carried the
ladders went first and planted them; next twelve light-armed soldiers
with only a dagger and a breastplate mounted, led by Amm... | {
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alarm. Fire-signals
of an attack were also raised towards Thebes; but the Plataeans in
the town at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand
for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy's signals unintelligible,
and to prevent his friends getting a true idea of what was passing
and coming to his aid... | {
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truce for the recovery of the dead
bodies, and then, learning the truth, desisted. In this way the Plataean
party got over and were saved.
Towards the close of the same winter, Salaethus, a Lacedaemonian,
was sent out in a galley from Lacedaemon to Mitylene. Going by sea
to Pyrrha, and from thence overland, he passed a... | {
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in the expectation of hearing from
Lesbos of something having been achieved by their fleet, which they
thought must now have got over. However, as they did not obtain any
of the results expected, and their provisions began to run short,
they retreated and dispersed to their different cities.
In the meantime the Mitylen... | {
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as their coming
was welcome everywhere; their object would be by this move to deprive
Athens of her chief source of revenue, and at the same time to saddle
her with expense, if she chose to blockade them; and they would probably
induce Pissuthnes to join them in the war. However, Alcidas gave this
proposal as bad a rec... | {
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} | 42,576,942 |
and fearing pursuit
he now made across the open sea, fully determined to touch nowhere,
if he could help it, until he got to Peloponnese. Meanwhile news of
him had come in to Paches from the Erythraeid, and indeed from all
quarters. As Ionia was unfortified, great fears were felt that the
Peloponnesians coasting along ... | {
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"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,576,944 |
in Paches, who invited Hippias,
the commander of the Arcadians in the fortified quarter, to a parley,
upon condition that, if they could not agree, he was to be put back
safe and sound in the fortification. However, upon his coming out
to him, he put him into custody, though not in chains, and attacked
suddenly and too... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,576,946 |
Mitylene, and to make slaves of the women and children. It was
remarked that Mitylene had revolted without being, like the rest,
subjected to the empire; and what above all swelled the wrath of the
Athenians was the fact of the Peloponnesian fleet having ventured
over to Ionia to her support, a fact which was held to a... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,576,948 |
so horrid an errand, while the second pressed on in the manner
described, the first arrived so little before them, that Paches had
only just had time to read the decree, and to prepare to execute the
sentence, when the second put into port and prevented the massacre.
The danger of Mitylene had indeed been great.
The ot... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,576,975 |
Lacedaemonians in the whole
Plataean affair was mainly adopted to please the Thebans, who were
thought to be useful in the war at that moment raging. Such was the
end of Plataea, in the ninety-third year after she became the ally
of Athens.
Meanwhile, the forty ships of the Peloponnesians that had gone to
the relief of... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,009 |
of the commons, to trial, upon the charge of enslaving
Corcyra to Athens. He, being acquitted, retorted by accusing five
of the richest of their number of cutting stakes in the ground sacred
to Zeus and Alcinous; the legal penalty being a stater for each stake.
Upon their conviction, the amount of the penalty being ver... | {
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"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,011 |
them, pelting with tiles from the houses,
and supporting the melee with a fortitude beyond their sex. Towards
dusk, the oligarchs in full rout, fearing that the victorious commons
might assault and carry the arsenal and put them to the sword, fired
the houses round the marketplace and the lodging-houses, in order
to ba... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,014 |
the temple of the Dioscuri. An
attempt on the part of Nicostratus to reassure them and to persuade
them to rise proving unsuccessful, the commons armed upon this pretext,
alleging the refusal of their adversaries to sail with them as a proof
of the hollowness of their intentions, and took their arms out of
their houses... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,016 |
straggling fashion, two immediately deserted: in others
the crews were fighting among themselves, and there was no order in
anything that was done; so that the Peloponnesians, seeing their confusion,
placed twenty ships to oppose the Corcyraeans, and ranged the rest
against the twelve Athenian ships, amongst which were... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,018 |
back to the continent
from whence they had put out. The next day equally they refrained
from attacking the city, although the disorder and panic were at their
height, and though Brasidas, it is said, urged Alcidas, his superior
officer, to do so, but they landed upon the promontory of Leukimme
and laid waste the countr... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,020 |
the ships. Next
they went to the sanctuary of Hera and persuaded about fifty men to
take their trial, and condemned them all to death. The mass of the
suppliants who had refused to do so, on seeing what was taking place,
slew each other there in the consecrated ground; while some hanged
themselves upon the trees, and o... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,022 |
bringing in the foreigner were never wanting to
the revolutionary parties. The sufferings which revolution entailed
upon the cities were many and terrible, such as have occurred and
always will occur, as long as the nature of mankind remains the same;
though in a severer or milder form, and varying in their symptoms,
a... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,024 |
long as no other weapon was at hand; but when opportunity
offered, he who first ventured to seize it and to take his enemy off
his guard, thought this perfidious vengeance sweeter than an open
one, since, considerations of safety apart, success by treachery won
him the palm of superior intelligence. Indeed it is genera... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,027 |
territory over the water, made
this their base to Plunder their countrymen in the island, and did
so much damage as to cause a severe famine in the town. They also
sent envoys to Lacedaemon and Corinth to negotiate their restoration;
but meeting with no success, afterwards got together boats and mercenaries
and crossed... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,032 |
war in concert with their allies.
Chapter XI
Year of the War - Campaigns of Demosthenes in Western Greece - Ruin
of Ambracia
Summer was now over. The winter following, the plague a second time
attacked the Athenians; for although it had never entirely left them,
still there had been a notable abatement in its ravages. ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,034 |
which Thucydides was the historian.
The next summer the Peloponnesians and their allies set out to invade
Attica under the command of Agis, son of Archidamus, and went as far
as the Isthmus, but numerous earthquakes occurring, turned back again
without the invasion taking place. About the same time that these
earthquak... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,036 |
of the Athenian general Charoeades,
killed by the Syracusans in battle, left Laches in the sole command
of the fleet, which he now directed in concert with the allies against
Mylae, a place belonging to the Messinese. Two Messinese battalions
in garrison at Mylae laid an ambush for the party landing from the
ships, but... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,038 |
the troops to the city and the others to the
ships. Nicias with his sixty ships coasted alongshore and ravaged
the Locrian seaboard, and so returned home.
About this time the Lacedaemonians founded their colony of Heraclea
in Trachis, their object being the following: the Malians form in
all three tribes, the Paralians... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,040 |
Corcyra. While the Leucadians witnessed the devastation
of their land, without and within the isthmus upon which the town
of Leucas and the temple of Apollo stand, without making any movement
on account of the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, the Acarnanians
urged Demosthenes, the Athenian general, to build a wall so... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,044 |
return to Naupactus and
make them the objects of a second expedition. Meanwhile the Aetolians
had been aware of his design from the moment of its formation, and
as soon as the army invaded their country came up in great force with
all their tribes; even the most remote Ophionians, the Bomiensians,
and Calliensians, who... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,048 |
of the archers had been killed and his
men scattered, the soldiers, wearied out with the constant repetition
of the same exertions and hard pressed by the Aetolians with their
javelins, at last turned and fled, and falling into pathless gullies
and places that they were unacquainted with, thus perished, the Messenian
C... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,050 |
summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition
had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus,
an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian,
obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which
had invited the Athenian invasion. The Lacedaemonians accord... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,052 |
this Molycrium
also, a Corinthian colony subject to Athens. Meanwhile the Athenian
Demosthenes, who since the affair in Aetolia had remained near Naupactus,
having had notice of the army and fearing for the town, went and persuaded
the Acarnanians, although not without difficulty because of his departure
from Leucas, t... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,054 |
retreat, the allies retreating after the Athenians were attacked
by the Syracusans from the fort, and a large part of their army routed
with great slaughter. After this, Laches and the Athenians from the
ships made some descents in Locris, and defeating the Locrians, who
came against them with Proxenus, son of Capaton,... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,056 |
maidens here
Who sings the songs the sweetest to your ear,
Think of me then, and answer with a smile,
'A blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.'
Homer thus attests that there was anciently a great assembly and festival
at Delos. In later times, although the islanders and the Athenians
continued to send the choirs of dance... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,059 |
not be able to pass through the Acarnanians,
and that they might themselves be obliged to fight single-handed,
or be unable to retreat, if they wished it, without danger.
Meanwhile Eurylochus and his Peloponnesians, learning that the Ambraciots
at Olpae had arrived, set out from Proschium with all haste to join
them, a... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,061 |
division opposed to them
and pursued it to Argos. Returning from the pursuit, they found their
main body defeated; and hard pressed by the Acarnanians, with difficulty
made good their passage to Olpae, suffering heavy loss on the way,
as they dashed on without discipline or order, the Mantineans excepted,
who kept thei... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,065 |
to Demosthenes and the Acarnanians
that the Ambraciots from the city, in compliance with the first message
from Olpae, were on the march with their whole levy through Amphilochia
to join their countrymen at Olpae, knowing nothing of what had occurred.
Demosthenes prepared to march with his army against them, and meanwh... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,067 |
of which the troops sent on
by Demosthenes succeeded in occupying after nightfall, unobserved
by the Ambraciots, who had meanwhile ascended the smaller and bivouacked
under it. After supper Demosthenes set out with the rest of the army,
as soon as it was evening; himself with half his force making for
the pass, and the... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,069 |
arms now deposited
in the Attic temples are three hundred panoplies, which the Acarnanians
set apart for Demosthenes, and which he brought to Athens in person,
his return to his country after the Aetolian disaster being rendered
less hazardous by this exploit. The Athenians in the twenty ships
also went off to Naupactu... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,074 |
ten Syracusan
and as many Locrian vessels sailed to Messina, in Sicily, and occupied
the town upon the invitation of the inhabitants; and Messina revolted
from the Athenians. The Syracusans contrived this chiefly because
they saw that the place afforded an approach to Sicily, and feared
that the Athenians might hereaft... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,078 |
that the famine raging in the city would make it
easy for them to reduce it. Demosthenes also, who had remained without
employment since his return from Acarnania, applied and obtained permission
to use the fleet, if he wished it, upon the coast of Peloponnese.
Off Laconia they heard that the Peloponnesian ships were a... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,080 |
soldiers, he remained inactive
with the rest from stress of weather; until the soldiers themselves
wanting occupation were seized with a sudden impulse to go round and
fortify the place. Accordingly they set to work in earnest, and having
no iron tools, picked up stones, and put them together as they happened
to fit, a... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,082 |
distressed their army.
Many reasons thus combined to hasten their departure and to make this
invasion a very short one; indeed they only stayed fifteen days in
Attica.
About the same time the Athenian general Simonides getting together
a few Athenians from the garrisons, and a number of the allies in
those parts, took ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,084 |
to take the place before, to block up the
entrances of the harbour to prevent their being able to anchor inside
it. For the island of Sphacteria, stretching along in a line close
in front of the harbour, at once makes it safe and narrows its entrances,
leaving a passage for two ships on the side nearest Pylos and the
A... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,086 |
their ships for Lacedaemon
in return for her many benefits, to run them boldly aground, land
in one way or another, and make themselves masters of the place and
its garrison.
Not content with this exhortation, he forced his own steersman to
run his ship ashore, and stepping on to the gangway, was endeavouring
to land, ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,094 |
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