hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 186 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 66 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 64 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Medea (ed. David Kovacs) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20. You can also browse the collection for Corinth (Greece) or search for Corinth (Greece) in all documents.
Your search returned 6 results in 5 document sections:
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 96 (search)
Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, section 65 (search)
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 52 (search)
and some of these men
through their goodwill to you have no longer a fatherland. The first example
that I propose to examine is that of the Corinthian exiles. And here I am
obliged to mention facts which I myself have only heard from the lips of the
older among you.Demosthenes was now thirty, and
the battle was fought ten tears before his birth. Some occasions,
then, on which they made themselves useful to us, I will pass over; but when the
great battle against the Lacedaemonians was fought near Corinth, and when the party in that city
determined after the battle not to admit our soldiers within their walls, but to
send heralds to greet the Lacedaemonians,
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 53 (search)
these men, though they saw that Athens had lost the day and that our enemies were holding the
pass,Between Corinth and its harbor of Lechaeum on
the Corinthian Gulf. refused to betray us or to take steps for their
own individual safety, but with the whole armed force of the Peloponnese close upon them, they opened their
gates to us in defiance of the majority and chose along with you, who had been
engaged in the battle, to suffer whatever might betide, rather than without you
to enjoy a safety that involved no danger; and so they admitted the troops and
succeeded in saving both you and your allies.
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 84 (search)