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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 46 | 46 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Memorabilia (ed. E. C. Marchant) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Artaxerxes, the king
of the Persians, diedIn the spring of 424 B.C. after a reign of forty years, and Xerxes succeeded to the throne and
ruled for a year.In Italy, when the Aequi revolted from the Romans, in the war which followed Aulus
Postumius was made Dictator and Lucius Julius was named Master of the Horse. And the Romans, having marched against the territory of the rebels with
a large and strong army, first of all plundered their possessions, and when the Aequi later
drew up against them, a battle ensued in which the Romans were victorious, slaying many of the
enemy, taking not a few captive, and capturing great quantities of booty. After the battle the revolters, being broken in spirit because of the
defeat, submitted themselves to the Romans, and Postumius, because he had conducted the war
brilliantly, as the Romans thought, celebrated the customary triumph. And Postumius, we are
told, did a peculiar thing and altogether unbelievabl
424 B.C.At the close of this year, in Athens the
archon was Isarchus and in Rome the consuls elected
were Titus Quinctius and Gaius Julius, and among the Eleians the Eighty-ninth Olympiad was
celebrated, that in which SymmachusOf Messene; cp. chap. 49.1. won the "stadion" for the
second time. This year the Athenians chose as general Nicias, the son of Niceratus, and
assigning to him sixty triremes and three thousand hoplites, they ordered him to plunder the
allies of the Lacedaemonians. He sailed to Melos as the first place, where he ravaged their territory and
for a number of days laid siege to the city; for it was the only island of the Cyclades which was maintaining its alliance with the
Lacedaemonians, being a Spartan colony. Nicias was unable to
take the city, however, since the Melians defended themselves gallantly, and he then sailed to
OropusOropus was always debatable territory between
Attica and Boeotia. in Boeotia. L