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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 106 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Demades, On the Twelve Years, section 14 (search)
Then too Demosthenes decided upon war, offering to
his compatriots counsel which, though seemingly prudent, was in reality fraught
with danger.After the accession of Alexander in
336 B.C. Demosthenes proposed a decree to
honor Philip's murderer, and war was imminent. But in the same year, when
Alexander entered Thessaly,
Athens retracted. Demades
apparently negotiated the ensuing agreement, but we have no other evidence
to confirm the statement made in this passage. When the enemy was
encamped near Attica and the country
was being confined in the town, when the city, worthy to be striven for and
marvelled at by all, was being filled like a stable with oxen, sheep and flocks
and there was no hope of help from any quarte