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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 9 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 91 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 94 (search)
The same summer, about the same time that the
Athenians were detained at Melos, their fellow-citizens in the thirty ships
cruising round Peloponnese, after cutting off some guards in an ambush at
Ellomenus in Leucadia, subsequently went against Leucas itself with a large
armament, having been reinforced by the whole levy of the Acarnanians except
Oeniadae, and by the Zacynthians and Cephallenans and fifteen ships from
Corcyra.
While the Leucadians witnessed the devastation of their land, without and
within the isthmus upon which the town of Leucas and the temple of Apollo
stand, without making any movement on account of the overwhelming numbers of
the enemy, the Acarnanians urged Demosthenes, the
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 5, chapter 84 (search)
The next summer Alcibiades sailed with twenty
ships to Argos and seized the suspected persons still left of the
Lacedaemonian faction to the number of three hundred, whom the Athenians
forthwith lodged in the neighboring islands of their empire.
The Athenians also made an expedition against the isle of Melos with thirty
ships of their own, six Chian, and two Lesbian vessels, sixteen hundred
heavy infantry, three hundred archers, and twenty mounted archers from
Athens, and about fifteen hundred heavy infantry from the allies and the
islanders.
The Melians are a colony of Lacedaemon that would not submit to the
Athenians like the other islanders, and at first remained neutral and took
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 39 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 8, chapter 41 (search)