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Pausanias, Description of Greece 54 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 2 0 Browse Search
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Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 2 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
)/xonta kata\ to\n *)isqmo\n decia/n. On hearing that, Temenus made ready the army and built ships in Locris where the place is now named Naupactus from that.Naupactus means “ship-built.” Compare Strab. 9.4.7; Paus. 4.26.1; Paus. 10.38.10. While the army was there, Aristodemus was kiNaupactus means “ship-built.” Compare Strab. 9.4.7; Paus. 4.26.1; Paus. 10.38.10. While the army was there, Aristodemus was killed by a thunderbolt,Aristodemus was a son of Aristomachus and brother of Temenus and Cresphontes, the conquerors of the Peloponnese （Paus. 2.18.7）. Some said he was shot by Apollo at Delphi for not consulting the oracle, but others said he was murdered by the children of Pylades and Electra （Paus. win sons, Eurysthenes and Procles, by Argia, daughter of Autesion.Compare Hdt. 6.52. And it chanced that a calamity also befell the army at Naupactus. For there appeared to them a soothsayer reciting oracles in a fine frenzy, whom they took for a magician sent by the Peloponnesians to be t