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Andocides, On the Mysteries, section 146 (search)
Andocides, On his Return, section 12 (search)
Thus equipped, the forces in Samos went on to defeat the Peloponnesians at seaMost probably the battle of Cyzicus, April 410. See Introd.; and it was they, and they alone who saved Athens at the time. Now if those heroes rendered you true service by their deed, I may fairly claim that that service was in no small degree due to me. Had that army not been furnished with supplies just then, they would have been fighting not so much to save Athens as to save their own lives.
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 12, section 1073b (search)
Demosthenes, Against Midias, section 173 (search)
But at any rate you know this, that when he had been made
steward of the Paralus, he plundered the people of Cyzicus of more than five talents, and to
avoid punishment he worried and harassed the wretches in every possible way, and
by making chaos of the treaties he has alienated their state from ours, while he
keeps the money himself. Since he was appointed its commander, he has ruined
your cavalry force, getting laws passed which he afterwards disowned.
Demosthenes, Against Phormio, section 23 (search)
My partner here had lent him
two thousand drachmae for the double voyage on terms that he should receive at
Athens two thousand six hundred
drachmae; but Phormio declares that he paid Lampis in Bosporus one hundred and twenty Cyzicene
statersThe stater of Cyzicus (a town on the south
shore of the Propontis, or sea of Marmora) was a coin made of
electrum, an alloy of approximately three-quarters gold and one-quarter
silver. It was nearly twice as heavy as the ordinary gold stater, which was
worth twenty drachmae, and had a value (as stated in the
text) of twenty-eight drachmae. The addition of the word
“there” indicates that the value differed in different
places according to the rate of exchange.(note this