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Browsing named entities in Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War. You can also browse the collection for Olympia (Greece) or search for Olympia (Greece) in all documents.
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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 121 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 143 (search)
Even if they were to touch the moneys at
Olympia or Delphi, and try to seduce our foreign sailors by the temptation
of higher pay, that would only be a serious danger if we could not still be
a match for them, by embarking our own citizens and the aliens resident
among us.
But in fact by this means we are always a match for them; and, best of all, we have a larger and higher class of native coxswains and
sailors among our own citizens than all the rest of Hellas.
And to say nothing of the danger of such a step, none of our foreign
sailors would consent to become an outlaw from his country, and to take
service with them and their hopes, for the sake of a few days' high pay.
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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 8 (search)
Meanwhile the envoys of the Mitylenians sent
out in the first ship were told by the Lacedaemonians to come to Olympia, in
order that the rest of the allies might hear them and decide upon their
matter, and so they journeyed thither.
It was the Olympiad in which the Rhodian Dorieus gained his second victory,
and the envoys having been introduced to make their speech after the
festival, spoke as follows.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 5, chapter 18 (search)