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Polybius, Histories | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Antigonus Doson at the Isthmus
Meanwhile, on the strength of the dismay caused by
The Achaeans offer to surrender the Acrocorinthus to Antigonus.
his successes, Cleomenes was making an unopposed progress through the cities, winning
some by persuasion and others by threats. In
this way he got possession of Caphyae, Pellene,
Pheneus, Argos, Phlius, Cleonae, Epidaurus, Hermione,
Troezen, and last of all Corinth, while he personally commanded
a siege of Sicyon. But this in reality relieved the Achaeans
from a very grave difficulty. For the Corinthians by ordering
Aratus, as Strategus of the league, and the Achaeans to
evacuate the town, and by sending messages to Cleomenes
inviting his presence, gave the Achaeans a ground of action
and a reasonable pretext for moving. Aratus was quick to
take advantage of this; and, as the Achaeans were in actual
possession of the Acrocorinthus, he made his peace with the
royal family of Macedonia by offering it to Antigonus; and
at the same time gave t