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Andocides, On the Peace, section 30 (search)
Again, an urgent request came to us from Syracuse; she was ready to end our differences by a pact of friendship, to end war by peace; and she pointed out the advantages of an alliance with herself, if only we would consent to it, over those of the 9-20). It was renewed in 424 by Laches. In 416 Segesta found herself ranged against the combined forces of Selinus and Syracuse. She appealed to Athens for help, and the disastrous Syracusan expedition resulted. But once more we chose war instead of peace, Segesta instead of Syracuse; instead of staying at home as the allies of Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily. The result was the loss of a large part of the Athenian and allied forces, the bravest being the first to fall; a Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily. The result was the loss of a large part of the Athenian and allied forces, the bravest being the first to fall; a reckless waste of ships, money, and resources: and the return of the survivors in disgrace
Andocides, Against Alcibiades, section 6 (search)
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7, section 1239a (search)
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7, section 1243b (search)
either in one kind of metre or
combining several, happens up to the present day to have no name. For we can find no common term to apply to the mimes
of Sophron and XenarchusSophron and Xenarchus, said
to he father and son, lived in Syracuse, the elder a contemporary of Euripides. They wrote
"mimes," i.e., simple and usually farcical sketches of familiar incidents,
similar to the mimes of Herondas and the fifteenth Idyll of Theocritus, but in
prose. There was a tradition that their mimes suggested to Plato the use of
dialogue. and to the Socratic dialogues: nor again supposing a poet were to make his representation in
iambics or elegiacs or any other such metre—except that people attach the
word poet(maker)to the name of the metre and speak of elegiac
poets and of others as epic poets.
Thus they do not call them poets in virtue of their representation but apply the
name indiscriminately in virtue of the metre. For if people publi<