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the ships on guard at Naupactus and by four Chian vessels. Seeing
the coast and the island both crowded with heavy infantry, and the
hostile ships in harbour showing no signs of sailing out, at a loss
where to anchor, they sailed for the moment to the desert island of
Prote, not far off, where they passed the night. Th... | {
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laid
hold of the ships and tried to drag them back, each man thinking that
success depended on his individual exertions. Great was the melee,
and quite in contradiction to the naval tactics usual to the two combatants;
the Lacedaemonians in their excitement and dismay being actually engaged
in a sea-fight on land, whil... | {
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attacks on the fort, and
on the look-out for any opportunity which might offer itself for the
deliverance of their men.
Meanwhile the Syracusans and their allies in Sicily had brought up
to the squadron guarding Messina the reinforcement which we left them
preparing, and carried on the war from thence, incited chiefly ... | {
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for
himself, to their own stations at Messina and Rhegium, with the loss
of one ship; night coming on before the battle was finished. After
this the Locrians retired from the Rhegian territory, and the ships
of the Syracusans and their allies united and came to anchor at Cape
Pelorus, in the territory of Messina, where... | {
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other Hellenic allies were coming to their support, suddenly
sallied out from the town, and attacked and routed the Messinese,
killing more than a thousand of them; while the remainder suffered
severely in their retreat home, being attacked by the barbarians on
the road, and most of them cut off. The ships put in to Me... | {
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there was no anchorage for the
ships, some took their meals on shore in their turn, while the others
were anchored out at sea. But their greatest discouragement arose
from the unexpectedly long time which it took to reduce a body of
men shut up in a desert island, with only brackish water to drink,
a matter which they ... | {
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throw in provisions, and the other to prevent their introduction.
At Athens, meanwhile, the news that the army was in great distress,
and that corn found its way in to the men in the island, caused no
small perplexity; and the Athenians began to fear that winter might
come on and find them still engaged in the blockade... | {
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seriously meant, he drew back, and
said that Nicias, not he, was general, being now frightened, and having
never supposed that Nicias would go so far as to retire in his favour.
Nicias, however, repeated his offer, and resigned the command against
Pylos, and called the Athenians to witness that he did so. And as
the mu... | {
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descent on the island; the soldiers
distressed by the difficulties of the position, and rather besieged
than besiegers, being eager to fight it out, while the firing of the
island had increased the confidence of the general. He had been at
first afraid, because the island having never been inhabited was almost
entirely... | {
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consumed
before they were aware of it. Demosthenes was now able for the first
time to see how numerous the Lacedaemonians really were, having up
to this moment been under the impression that they took in provisions
for a smaller number; he also saw that the Athenians thought success
important and were anxious about it,... | {
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party guarded the very end of the island,
towards Pylos, which was precipitous on the sea-side and very difficult
to attack from the land, and where there was also a sort of old fort
of stones rudely put together, which they thought might be useful
to them, in case they should be forced to retreat. Such was their
dispo... | {
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changing to disdain, they
now rushed all together with loud shouts upon them, and pelted them
with stones, darts, and arrows, whichever came first to hand. The
shouting accompanying their onset confounded the Lacedaemonians, unaccustomed
to this mode of fighting; dust rose from the newly burnt wood, and
it was impossib... | {
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front and tried to storm the position. For a long
time, indeed for most of the day, both sides held out against all
the torments of the battle, thirst, and sun, the one endeavouring
to drive the enemy from the high ground, the other to maintain himself
upon it, it being now more easy for the Lacedaemonians to defend th... | {
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masters of the approaches when Cleon and
Demosthenes perceiving that, if the enemy gave way a single step further,
they would be destroyed by their soldiery, put a stop to the battle
and held their men back; wishing to take the Lacedaemonians alive
to Athens, and hoping that their stubbornness might relax on hearing
th... | {
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peace, the men had provisions
given them, for the rest they were fed by the smugglers. Corn and
other victual was found in the island; the commander Epitadas having
kept the men upon half rations. The Athenians and Peloponnesians now
each withdrew their forces from Pylos, and went home, and crazy as
Cleon's promise was... | {
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two hundred cavalry on board
horse transports, accompanied by the Milesians, Andrians, and Carystians
from the allies, under the command of Nicias, son of Niceratus, with
two colleagues. Putting out to sea they made land at daybreak between
Chersonese and Rheitus, at the beach of the country underneath the
Solygian hil... | {
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right wing
of the Athenians and Carystians, who had been placed at the end of
the line, received and with some difficulty repulsed the Corinthians,
who thereupon retreated to a wall upon the rising ground behind, and
throwing down the stones upon them, came on again singing the paean,
and being received by the Athenian... | {
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the battle for
Mount Oneion, found out what was going on by the dust, and hurried
up to the rescue; as did also the older Corinthians from the town,
upon discovering what had occurred. The Athenians seeing them all
coming against them, and thinking that they were reinforcements arriving
from the neighbouring Peloponnes... | {
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them, as
if for their own sakes, that they had best escape as quickly as possible,
as the Athenian generals were going to give them up to the Corcyraean
people.
These representations succeeding, it was so arranged that the men
were caught sailing out in the boat that was provided, and the treaty
became void accordingly... | {
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doors, got up on the top of the building,
and breaking through the roof, threw down the tiles and let fly arrows
at them, from which the prisoners sheltered themselves as well as
they could. Most of their number, meanwhile, were engaged in dispatching
themselves by thrusting into their throats the arrows shot by the
en... | {
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to collect
money from the allies, arrested at Eion, on the Strymon, Artaphernes,
a Persian, on his way from the King to Lacedaemon. He was conducted
to Athens, where the Athenians got his dispatches translated from
the Assyrian character and read them. With numerous references to
other subjects, they in substance told ... | {
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took the town by treachery,
their plan being to free Antandrus and the rest of the Actaean towns,
formerly owned by Mitylene but now held by the Athenians. Once fortified
there, they would have every facility for ship-building from the vicinity
of Ida and the consequent abundance of timber, and plenty of other
supplies... | {
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of
Cythera, where they found all the inhabitants encamped. A battle ensuing,
the Cytherians held their ground for some little while, and then turned
and fled into the upper town, where they soon afterwards capitulated
to Nicias and his colleagues, agreeing to leave their fate to the
decision of the Athenians, their liv... | {
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in military
matters, finding themselves involved in a maritime struggle, which
their organization had never contemplated, and that against Athenians,
with whom an enterprise unattempted was always looked upon as a success
sacrificed. Besides this, their late numerous reverses of fortune,
coming close one upon another w... | {
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perceiving the agitation, now more openly
than before demanded the adoption of this proposition; and the leaders
of the commons, seeing that the sufferings of the times had tired
out the constancy of their supporters, entered in their alarm into
correspondence with the Athenian generals, Hippocrates, son of Ariphron,
a... | {
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a means of opening the gates, they
had been used, with the consent of the officer in command, to carry
by night a sculling boat upon a cart along the ditch to the sea, and
so to sail out, bringing it back again before day upon the cart, and
taking it within the wall through the gates, in order, as they pretended,
to ba... | {
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think that
all Megara had gone over to the enemy. It so happened also that the
Athenian herald of his own idea called out and invited any of the
Megarians that wished, to join the Athenian ranks; and this was no
sooner heard by the garrison than they gave way, and, convinced that
they were the victims of a concerted at... | {
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no signs of their knowledge of the intrigue, but
stoutly maintained that their advice was the best, and meanwhile kept
close by and watched the gates, making it impossible for the conspirators
to effect their purpose.
The Athenian generals seeing that some obstacle had arisen, and that
the capture of the town by force ... | {
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between the Athenians
and the relieving army, and thinking it safer to see their friends
victorious before declaring in their favour.
Unable to carry his point, Brasidas went back to the rest of the army.
At daybreak the Boeotians joined him. Having determined to relieve
Megara, whose danger they considered their own, ... | {
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walls and, the enemy not attacking, there
remained motionless; their generals having decided that the risk was
too unequal. In fact most of their objects had been already attained;
and they would have to begin a battle against superior numbers, and
if victorious could only gain Megara, while a defeat would destroy
the ... | {
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the plot in contemplation. Hippocrates with a force raised
at home awaited the proper moment to take the field against the Boeotians;
while he sent on Demosthenes with the forty ships above mentioned
to Naupactus, to raise in those parts an army of Acarnanians and of
the other allies, and sail and receive Siphae from t... | {
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proceed; since even as it was, he was met on his march at the river
Enipeus by certain of the opposite party who forbade his further progress,
and complained of his making the attempt without the consent of the
nation. To this his escort answered that they had no intention of
taking him through against their will; they... | {
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successes
of the Athenians. The Chalcidians thought that they would be the first
objects of an Athenian expedition, not that the neighbouring towns
which had not yet revolted did not also secretly join in the invitation;
and Perdiccas also had his apprehensions on account of his old quarrels
with the Athenians, althoug... | {
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by treachery; and thus when the
Lacedaemonians desired to treat, as they ultimately did, they had
places to offer in exchange, and the burden of war meanwhile shifted
from Peloponnese. Later on in the war, after the events in Sicily,
the present valour and conduct of Brasidas, known by experience to
some, by hearsay to... | {
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whom he might bring over. Not long
after, Stagirus, a colony of the Andrians, followed their example
and revolted.
Such were the events of this summer. It was in the first days of the
winter following that the places in Boeotia were to be put into the
hands of the Athenian generals, Hippocrates and Demosthenes, the lat... | {
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Boeotians, sent orders
to his troops to throw themselves into line, and himself joined them
not long afterwards, leaving about three hundred horse behind him
at Delium, at once to guard the place in case of attack, and to watch
their opportunity and fall upon the Boeotians during the battle. The
Boeotians placed a deta... | {
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had got half through the army with his exhortation, when
the Boeotians, after a few more hasty words from Pagondas, struck
up the paean, and came against them from the hill; the Athenians advancing
to meet them, and closing at a run. The extreme wing of neither army
came into action, one like the other being stopped by... | {
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pursued
and cut down by the Boeotians, and in particular by the cavalry, composed
partly of Boeotians and partly of Locrians, who had come up just as
the rout began. Night however coming on to interrupt the pursuit,
the mass of the fugitives escaped more easily than they would otherwise
have done. The next day the troo... | {
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Athenians sent their own herald
to the Boeotians to say that they had not done any wrong to the temple,
and for the future would do it no more harm than they could help;
not having occupied it originally in any such design, but to defend
themselves from it against those who were really wronging them. The
law of the Hel... | {
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found only a small guard to oppose
him, the town being at some distance from the passage, and the walls
not reaching down to it as at present. This guard he easily drove
in, partly through there being treason in their ranks, partly from
the stormy state of the weather and the suddenness of his attack,
and so got across... | {
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Brasidas
was admitted by them on the terms of his proclamation. In this way
they gave up the city, and late in the same day Thucydides and his
ships entered the harbour of Eion, Brasidas having just got hold of
Amphipolis, and having been within a night of taking Eion: had the
ships been less prompt in relieving it, in... | {
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Strymon, yet as long
as they were not masters of the bridge but were watched on the side
of Eion by the Athenian galleys, and on the land side impeded by a
large and extensive lake formed by the waters of the river, it was
impossible for them to go any further. Now, on the contrary, the path
seemed open. There was also... | {
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from their surprise and confusion; but the
conspirators and the citizens of their party at once joined the invaders.
About fifty of the Athenian heavy infantry happened to be sleeping
in the market-place when the alarm reached them. A few of these were
killed fighting; the rest escaped, some by land, others to the two
... | {
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them, and any opposition
that they might have offered him could be excused.
Having encouraged them with this address, as soon as the truce expired
he made his attack upon Lecythus; the Athenians defending themselves
from a poor wall and from some houses with parapets. One day they
beat him off; the next the enemy were ... | {
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first on the wall. Being
now of opinion that the capture was scarcely due to human means, he
gave the thirty minae to the goddess for her temple, and razed and
cleared Lecythus, and made the whole of it consecrated ground. The
rest of the winter he spent in settling the places in his hands, and
in making designs upon t... | {
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nor they with us: that in Nisaea and Minoa not crossing the
road leading from the gates of the temple of Nisus to that of Poseidon
and from thence straight to the bridge at Minoa: the Megarians and
the allies being equally bound not to cross this road, and the Athenians
retaining the island they have taken, without any... | {
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at once take the engagement before
the people to keep well and truly this truce for one year.
On these terms the Lacedaemonians concluded with the Athenians and
their allies on the twelfth day of the Spartan month Gerastius; the
allies also taking the oaths. Those who concluded and poured the libation
were Taurus, son ... | {
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to escape. His passage effected, he called a meeting
of the Scionaeans and spoke to the same effect as at Acanthus and
Torone, adding that they merited the utmost commendation, in that,
in spite of Pallene within the isthmus being cut off by the Athenian
occupation of Potidaea and of their own practically insular posit... | {
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carrying round the news of the armistice, Aristonymus
for the Athenians and Athenaeus for the Lacedaemonians. The troops
now crossed back to Torone, and the commissioners gave Brasidas notice
of the convention. All the Lacedaemonian allies in Thrace accepted
what had been done; and Aristonymus made no difficulty about ... | {
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of certain infringements
of the truce alleged by him against the Athenians. This audacity of
Mende was partly caused by seeing Brasidas forward in the matter and
by the conclusions drawn from his refusal to betray Scione; and besides,
the conspirators in Mende were few, and, as I have already intimated,
had carried on ... | {
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cavalry action. After this the Lyncestian
heavy infantry advanced from their hill to join their cavalry and
offered battle; upon which Brasidas and Perdiccas also came down to
meet them, and engaged and routed them with heavy loss; the survivors
taking refuge upon the heights and there remaining inactive. The victors
n... | {
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his natural interests and made it his endeavour to
come to terms with the latter and to get rid of the former.
On his return from Macedonia to Torone, Brasidas found the Athenians
already masters of Mende, and remained quiet where he was, thinking
it now out of his power to cross over into Pallene and assist the
Mendae... | {
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and encamped, and the Mendaeans at nightfall
returned into the town.
The next day the Athenians sailed round to the Scione side, and took
the suburb, and all day plundered the country, without any one coming
out against them, partly because of intestine disturbances in the
town; and the following night the three hundre... | {
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it just as if they had taken it by storm, the generals
even finding some difficulty in restraining them from also massacring
the inhabitants. After this the Athenians told the Mendaeans that
they might retain their civil rights, and themselves judge the supposed
authors of the revolt; and cut off the party in the citad... | {
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them by Pharnaces, and settled there as they removed
from Delos.
Meanwhile Cleon prevailed on the Athenians to let him set sail at
the expiration of the armistice for the towns in the direction of
Thrace with twelve hundred heavy infantry and three hundred horse
from Athens, a large force of the allies, and thirty ship... | {
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of the old wall that had been pulled down, killing some of
the Peloponnesians and Toronaeans in the melee, and making prisoners
of the rest, and Pasitelidas their commander amongst them. Brasidas
meanwhile had advanced to relieve Torone, and had only about four
miles more to go when he heard of its fall on the road, an... | {
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were dissatisfied, and leaving Syracuse occupied
Phocaeae, a quarter of the town of Leontini, and Bricinniae, a strong
place in the Leontine country, and being there joined by most of the
exiled commons carried on war from the fortifications. The Athenians
hearing this, sent Phaeax to see if they could not by some mean... | {
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not been pressed by a war with
the Hipponians and Medmaeans who lived on their border, and were colonists
of theirs. Phaeax meanwhile proceeded on his voyage, and at length
arrived at Athens.
Cleon, whom we left on his voyage from Torone to Amphipolis, made
Eion his base, and after an unsuccessful assault upon the Andr... | {
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of their inactivity,
began also seriously to reflect on the weakness and incompetence of
their commander, and the skill and valour that would be opposed to
him, and on their own original unwillingness to accompany him. These
murmurs coming to the ears of Cleon, he resolved not to disgust the
army by keeping it in the s... | {
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his audacity.
At the same moment Clearidas in execution of his orders issued out
from the Thracian gates to support him, and also attacked the enemy.
The result was that the Athenians, suddenly and unexpectedly attacked
on both sides, fell into confusion; and their left towards Eion, which
had already got on some dista... | {
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public expense in the city, in front of what is now the marketplace,
and the Amphipolitans, having enclosed his tomb, ever afterwards sacrifice
to him as a hero and have given to him the honour of games and annual
offerings. They constituted him the founder of their colony, and pulled
down the Hagnonic erections, and o... | {
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and themselves not equal to
the execution of Brasidas's designs. The main cause however of their
return was because they knew that when they set out Lacedaemonian
opinion was really in favour of peace.
Indeed it so happened that directly after the battle of Amphipolis
and the retreat of Ramphias from Thessaly, both sid... | {
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of the cities in Peloponnese
of intending to go over to the endeed was indeed the case.
These considerations made both sides disposed for an accommodation;
the Lacedaemonians being probably the most eager, as they ardently
desired to recover the men taken upon the island, the Spartans among
whom belonged to the first f... | {
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by city, as follows;
1. Touching the national temples, there shall be a free passage by
land and by sea to all who wish it, to sacrifice, travel, consult,
and attend the oracle or games, according to the customs of their
countries.
2. The temple and shrine of Apollo at Delphi and the Delphians shall
be governed by thei... | {
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Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates,
Leon, Lamachus, and Demosthenes.
This treaty was made in the spring, just at the end of winter, directly
after the city festival of Dionysus, just ten years, with the difference
of a few days, from the first invasion of Attica and the commencement
of this war. T... | {
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} | 42,577,321 |
Acropolis near the statue of Athene. Should the Lacedaemonians
and Athenians see to add to or take away from the alliance in any
particular, it shall be consistent with their oaths for both parties
to do so, according to their discretion.
Those who took the oath for the Lacedaemonians were Pleistoanax, Agis,
Pleistolas... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,326 |
that desired it.
The Mantineans and their allies were the first to come over through
fear of the Lacedaemonians. Having taken advantage of the war against
Athens to reduce a large part of Arcadia into subjection, they thought
that Lacedaemon would not leave them undisturbed in their conquests,
now that she had leisure ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,333 |
and first making
an alliance with Corinth went on from thence to Argos, according to
their instructions, and became allies of the Argives, their country
being just then at enmity with Lacedaemon and Lepreum. Some time back
there had been a war between the Lepreans and some of the Arcadians;
and the Eleans being called ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,337 |
of their misfortune, and so make some attempt
at revolution, if left in possession of their franchise. These were
therefore at once disfranchised, although some of them were in office
at the time, and thus placed under a disability to take office, or
buy and sell anything. After some time, however, the franchise was
re... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,343 |
her possession, evacuated Thrace, and performed everything
else in her power. Amphipolis it was out of her ability to restore;
but she would endeavour to bring the Boeotians and Corinthians into
the treaty, to recover Panactum, and send home all the Athenian prisoners
of war in Boeotia. Meanwhile she required that Pylo... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,345 |
the friendship and alliance of Argos even at the price of
the hostility of Athens and the rupture of the treaty. The Boeotians
knew that an honourable friendship with Argos had been long the desire
of Lacedaemon; for the Lacedaemonians believed that this would considerably
facilitate the conduct of the war outside Pelo... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,347 |
friends at Lacedaemon. Shortly afterwards
ambassadors appeared from Argos with the proposals indicated; and
the Boeotarchs approved of the terms and dismissed the ambassadors
with a promise to send envoys to Argos to negotiate the alliance.
In the meantime it was decided by the Boeotarchs, the Corinthians,
the Megarian... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,349 |
and to enter into the treaty with the Athenians,
and that Athens was privy to this arrangement, and even her alliance,
therefore, no longer open to them- a resource which they had always
counted upon, by reason of the dissensions existing, in the event
of the noncontinuance of their treaty with Lacedaemon. In this stra... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,353 |
to them standing, and in having, as they now heard, made
a separate alliance with the Boeotians, in spite of their previous
promise to join Athens in compelling the adhesion of those who refused
to accede to the treaty. The Athenians also considered the other points
in which Lacedaemon had failed in her compact, and th... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,357 |
to come as quickly as possible to Athens, accompanied by the
Mantineans and Eleans, with proposals of alliance; as the moment was
propitious and he himself would do all he could to help them.
Upon receiving this message and discovering that the Athenians, far
from being privy to the Boeotian alliance, were involved in ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,359 |
of their not acceding to the treaty,
the Athenians for their part would ally themselves with the Argives
and their friends. The Lacedaemonians, however, refused to give up
the Boeotian alliance- the party of Xenares the ephor, and such as
shared their view, carrying the day upon this point- but renewed the
oaths at the... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,364 |
effectually
can, to the best of their power. But if the invader be gone after
plundering the territory, the offending state shall be the enemy of
the Argives, Mantineans, Eleans, and Athenians, and war shall be made
against it by all these cities: and no one of the cities shall be
able to make peace with that state, ex... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,366 |
to, the Lacedaemonians
should ascend the altar of the Olympian Zeus, as they were so anxious
to have access to the temple, and swear before the Hellenes that they
would surely pay the fine at a later day. This being also refused,
the Lacedaemonians were excluded from the temple, the sacrifice, and
the games, and sacrif... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,373 |
in Trachinia and the Aenianians, Dolopians, Malians,
and certain of the Thessalians, all tribes bordering on and hostile
to the town, which directly menaced their country. Accordingly, after
having opposed and harassed it from its very foundation by every means
in their power, they now in this battle defeated the Herac... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,375 |
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 Epidauri... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,378 |
the vigilance of the Athenians, and sent in a garrison of three
hundred men to Epidaurus, under the command of Agesippidas. Upon this
the Argives went to the Athenians and complained of their having allowed
an enemy to pass by sea, in spite of the clause in the treaty by which
the allies were not to allow an enemy to p... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,380 |
and accordingly with
their full force, the Helots included, took the field against Argos,
under the command of Agis, son of Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians.
The Tegeans and the other Arcadian allies of Lacedaemon joined in
the expedition. The allies from the rest of Peloponnese and from outside
mustered at Phliu... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,382 |
Sicyonians had instructions to come down by the Nemean
road where the Argives were posted, in order that, if the enemy advanced
into the plain against the troops of Agis, they might fall upon his
rear with their cavalry. These dispositions concluded, Agis invaded
the plain and began to ravage Saminthus and other places... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,384 |
But when the news arrived of the capture of Orchomenos,
they became more angry than ever, and, departing from all precedent,
in the heat of the moment had almost decided to raze his house, and
to fine him ten thousand drachmae. Agis however entreated them to
do none of these things, promising to atone for his fault by ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,391 |
it was not easy except all together, and after waiting
for each other, to pass through the enemy's country, which lay right
across and blocked up the line of communication. Nevertheless they
made what haste they could. Meanwhile the Lacedaemonians with the
Arcadian allies that had joined them, entered the territory of ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,393 |
off the water. The Argives and their allies were
at first amazed at the sudden retreat of the enemy after advancing
so near, and did not know what to make of it; but when he had gone
away and disappeared, without their having stirred to pursue him,
they began anew to find fault with their generals, who had not only
let... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,395 |
to them the allies from Arcadia; after
whom came the thousand picked men of the Argives, to whom the state
had given a long course of military training at the public expense;
next to them the rest of the Argives, and after them their allies,
the Cleonaeans and Orneans, and lastly the Athenians on the extreme
left, and ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,398 |
country and
to avoid returning to the experience of servitude after having tasted
that of empire; the Argives, that they would contend for their ancient
supremacy, to regain their once equal share of Peloponnese of which
they had been so long deprived, and to punish an enemy and a neighbour
for a thousand wrongs; the A... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,400 |
man next him on
the right, thinking that the closer the shields are locked together
the better will he be protected. The man primarily responsible for
this is the first upon the right wing, who is always striving to withdraw
from the enemy his unarmed side; and the same apprehension makes the
rest follow him. On the pr... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,402 |
and with them the beaten Argive division. Meanwhile
the Mantineans and their allies and the picked body of the Argives
ceased to press the enemy, and seeing their friends defeated and the
Lacedaemonians in full advance upon them, took to flight. Many of
the Mantineans perished; but the bulk of the picked body of the Ar... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,406 |
turned back the allies from Corinth
and from beyond the Isthmus, and returning themselves dismissed their
allies, and kept the Carnean holidays, which happened to be at that
time. The imputations cast upon them by the Hellenes at the time,
whether of cowardice on account of the disaster in the island, or
of mismanageme... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,408 |
treaty with the Lacedaemonians, to
be followed by an alliance, and after this to fall upon the commons.
Lichas, son of Arcesilaus, the Argive proxenus, accordingly arrived
at Argos with two proposals from Lacedaemon, to regulate the conditions
of war or peace, according as they preferred the one or the other.
After muc... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,410 |
as the Lacedaemonians, and the allies of the Argives
shall be on the same footing as the Argives, being left in enjoyment
of their own possessions.
8. This treaty shall be shown to the allies, and shall be concluded,
if they approve; if the allies think fit, they may send the treaty
to be considered at home.
The Argive... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,412 |
do so
upon seeing the way shown him by Argos, the original home of his family.
They also renewed their old oaths with the Chalcidians and took new
ones: the Argives, besides, sent ambassadors to the Athenians, bidding
them evacuate the fort at Epidaurus. The Athenians, seeing their own
men outnumbered by the rest of th... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,415 |
upon the oligarchs.
After a fight in the city, victory declared for the commons, who slew
some of their opponents and banished others. The Lacedaemonians for
a long while let the messages of their friends at Argos remain without
effect. At last they put off the Gymnopaediae and marched to their
succour, but learning at... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,417 |
city itself; Agis, son of Archidamus, their king, was in command.
The intelligence which they counted upon within the town came to nothing;
they however took and razed the walls which were being built, and
after capturing the Argive town Hysiae and killing all the freemen
that fell into their hands, went back and dispe... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,419 |
left stayed on and besieged the place.
About the same time the Argives invaded the territory of Phlius and
lost eighty men cut off in an ambush by the Phliasians and Argive
exiles. Meanwhile the Athenians at Pylos took so much plunder from
the Lacedaemonians that the latter, although they still refrained
from breaking ... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,440 |
to remove to the south and west of the island, which thus
came to be called Sicily instead of Sicania, and after they crossed
over continued to enjoy the richest parts of the country for near
three hundred years before any Hellenes came to Sicily; indeed they
still hold the centre and north of the island. There were al... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,445 |
Cuma and Chalcis
respectively. It first had the name of Zancle given it by the Sicels,
because the place is shaped like a sickle, which the Sicels call zanclon;
but upon the original settlers being afterwards expelled by some Samians
and other Ionians who landed in Sicily flying from the Medes, and
the Samians in their... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,449 |
kindred and other allies in the island. But they were especially
incited by envoys from Egesta, who had come to Athens and invoked
their aid more urgently than ever. The Egestaeans had gone to war
with their neighbours the Selinuntines upon questions of marriage
and disputed territory, and the Selinuntines had procured... | {
"pile_set_name": [
"Pile-CC",
"Pile-CC"
]
} | 42,577,451 |
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