Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, THE SIXTH BOOK, chapter 73

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73. The Syracusians, when they had heard him, decreed all that he advised and elected three generals, him, Heracleides, the son of Lysimachus, and Sicanus, the son of Exekestus. [2] They sent also ambassadors to Corinth and Lacedaemon, as well to obtain a league with them as also to persuade the Lacedaemonians to make a hotter war against the Athenians and to declare themselves in the quarrel of the Syracusians, thereby either to withdraw them from Sicily or to make them the less able to send supply to their army which was there already.

The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.

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Commentary references to this page (7):
- E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 7, 7.1
- Charles D. Morris, Commentary on Thucydides Book 1, 1.109
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.14
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.15
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.46
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.60
- Charles F. Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 7, 7.60
Cross-references to this page (3):
- Smith's Bio, Heracleides
- Smith's Bio, Hermo'crates
- Smith's Bio, Sica'nus
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thuc. 6.88
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (4):
- LSJ, ἐκ
- LSJ, ἐπιπέμπω
- LSJ, προφαν-ής
- LSJ, συμμα^χ-ία

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