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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 26 | 26 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 22 | 22 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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Pythagoras, in addition to his other injunctions, commanded
his pupils rarely to take an oath, and, when they did swear an oath, to abide by it under any
circumstances and to bring to fulfilment whatever they have sworn to do; and that they should
never reply as did Lysander the Laconian and Demades the Athenian,Lysander, a Spartan admiral, died in 395 B.C.;
Demades, the orator, in 319 B.C. Antipater once remarked of Demades,
when he was an old man, that "he was like a victim when the sacrifice was
over—nothing left but tongue and guts" (Plut. Phocion,
1). the former of whom once declared that boys should be cheated with dice and
men with oaths, and Demades affirmed that in the case of oaths, as in all other affairs, the
most profitable course is the one to choose, and that it was his observation that the perjurer
forthwith continued to possess the things regarding which he had taken the oath, whereas the
man who had kept his
395 B.C.At the close of this year, in Athens Diophantus entered upon
the archonship, and in Rome, in place of consuls, the consular magistracy was exercised by six
military tribunes, Lucius Valerius, Marcus Furius, Quintus Servilius, and Quintus
Sulpicius.Livy 5.14.5 adds
M. Valerius and L. Furius. After these men had assumed their magistracies the Boeotians
and Athenians, together with the Corinthians and the Argives, concluded an alliance with each
other. It was their thought that, since the Lacedaemonians
were hated by their allies because of their harsh rule, it would be an easy matter to overthrow
their supremacy, given that the strongest states were of one mind. First of all, they set up a
common Council in Corinth to which they sent representatives to form plans, and worked out in
common the arrangements for the war. Then they dispatched ambassadors to the cities and caused
many allies of the Lacedaemonians to withdraw fr