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Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, section 14 (search)
You made no allowance for Timotheus,The following passage is repeated almost word for word in the
speech against Philocles （Din.
3.17）. Timotheus, an Athenian general and a friend of
Isocrates, who recounts his exploits （Isoc.
15.107-113）, sailed round the Peloponnese and gained a victory at
Corcyra in 375 B.C. In 365 he took Samos, which was occupied by a Persian garrison, after a
ten months' siege （Dem. 15.9）.
Thence he moved to Thrace and
mastered several Chalcidian cities, of which Dinarchus here mentions three.
In 356 he was sent out with two others to reinforce the fleet of Chares who
was trying to crush an allied revolt; but in a sea battle near Chios he failed to help Chares, owing to
stormy weather, and
Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, section 73 (search)
led the Sacred BandThe
Sacred Band was a company of 300 picked soldiers maintained by the state.
They first attracted attention by defeating a Spartan force in 375 B.C. and played a large part in the victory of
Leuctra. At Chaeronea they fought
to the last man and were buried by the highway from Phocis to Thebes with the figure of a lion
over their tomb. and Epaminondas and their compeers were in command.
It was then that Thebes won the battle of Leuctra, then that they invaded the
Spartans' country which, it was thought, could not be ravaged. During that
period they accomplished many fine achievements: founded Messene in the four hundredthMessenia
was first conquered about the year 700 B.C., so
that the figure 400th is a very rough estimate; 300th would be nea