is, Poseidon and also Lysander by Dameas; the Apollo and Zeus by Athenodorus. The last two artists were Arcadians from Cleitor.
Behind the offerings enumerated are statues of those who, whether Spartans or Spartan allies, assisted Lysander at Aegospotami.405 B.C They are these: —Aracus of Lacedaemon, Erianthes a Boeotian . . . above Mimas, whence came Astycrates, Cephisocles, Hermophantus and Hicesius of Chios; Timarchus and Diagoras of Rhodes; Theodamus of Cnidus; Cimmerius of Ephesus and Aeaon, Telycrates the Leucadian, Pythodotus of Corinth and Euantidas the Ambraciot; last come the Lacedaemonians Epicydidas and Eteonicus. These, they say, are works of Patrocles and Canachus.
The Athenians refuse to confess that their defeat at Aegospotami was fairly inflicted, maintaining that they were betrayed by Tydeus and Adeimantus, their generals, who had been bribed, they say, with money by Lysander. As a proof of this assertion they quote the following oracle of the Sibyl:—And then on
t its name from a woman or a nymph, while as for Naupactus, I have heard it said that the Dorians under the sons of Aristomachus built here the vessels in which they crossed to the Peloponnesus, thus, it is said, giving to the place its name.Naupactus means “the city of ship-building.” My account of Naupactus, how the Athenians took it from the Locrians and gave it as a home to those who seceded to Ithome at the time of the earthquake at Lacedaemon, and how, after the Athenian disaster at Aegospotami, the Lacedaemonians expelled the Messenians from Naupactus, all this I have fully related in my history of Messenia.Paus. 4.23 foll. When the Messenians were forced to leave, the Locrians gathered again at Naupactus.
The epic poem called the Naupactia by the Greeks is by most people assigned to a poet of Miletus, while Charon, the son of Pythes, says that it is a composition of Carcinus of Naupactus. I am one of those who agree with the Lampsacenian writer. For what reason could there be
in that they joined themselves to the barbarians, and stripped her of those ships which had once been the means of their own salvation, and demolished her walls as a recompense for our saving their walls from ruin.These formed part of the terms exacted by the Spartans after the battle of Aegospotami, B.C. 405. Our city, therefore, resolved that never again would she succour Greeks when in danger of enslavement either by one another or at the hands of barbarians; and in this mind she abode. Such then being our policy, the Lacedaemonians supposed that we, the champions of liberty, were laid low, and that it was now open to them to enslave the rest, and this
m or the other neighboring peoples well intentioned, they were forced, in a way, to enlarge their own country by the dismemberment of that of the others. And in this way, while they were advancing and increasing little by little, it came to pass, contrary to the expectation of all, that they suddenly lost their city,To the Gauls, under Brennus. although they also got it back contrary to expectation. This took place, as Polybius1. 6. says, in the nineteenth year after the naval battle at Aegospotami, at the time of the Peace of Antalcidas.Concluded at Sparta in the Spring of 386 B.C. After having rid themselves of these enemies, the Romans first made all the Latini their subjects; then stopped the Tyrrheni and the Celti who lived about the Padus from their wide and unrestrained licence; then fought down the Samnitae, and, after them, the Tarantini and Pyrrhus; and then at last also the remainder of what is now Italy, except the part that is about the Padus. And while this part w
Polybius, Histories, book 1, Roman Dominion in Italy (search)
Roman Dominion in Italy
It was in the nineteenth year after the sea-fight at
B. C. 387-386. The rise of the Roman dominion may be traced from the retirement of the Gauls from the city. From that time one nation after another in Italy fell into their hands.
Aegospotami, and the sixteenth before the battle
at Leuctra; the year in which the Lacedaemonians made what is called the Peace of
Antalcidas with the King of Persia; the year
in which the elder Dionysius was besieging
Rhegium after beating the Italian Greeks on
the river Elleporus; and in which the Gauls
took Rome itself by storm and were occupying
the whole of it except the Capitol. With these
Gauls the Romans made a treaty and settlement
which they were content to accept: and having thus become
beyond all expectation once more masters of their own country,
they made a start in their career of expansion; and in the
succeeding period engaged in various wars with their neighbours. The Latini. First, by dint of valour, and the good
