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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 14 14 Browse Search
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Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 1 1 Browse Search
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Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) 1 1 Browse Search
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Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson), Book 6, chapter 5 (search)
hand, gave them zealous assistance at the time when they were hard pressed by the Messenians. In the so-called Third Messenian War, 464-455 B.C. They also described all the blessings which were enjoyed at the time when both peoples were acting in union, recalling how they had together driven the barbarian back, recalling likewise how the Athenians had been chosen by the Greeks as leaders of the fleet and custodians of the common funds, Referring to the formation of the Confederacy of Delos, 477 B.C. the Lacedaemonians supporting this choice, while they had themselves been selected by the common consent of all the Greeks as leaders by land, the Athenians in their turn supporting this selection. And one of them even said something like this: “But if you and we, gentlemen, come to agreement, there is hope now that the Thebans will be decimated, as the old saying has it.” The Athenians, however, were not very much inclined to accept all this, and a murmur went round to the effect that “thi<