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Andocides, Against Alcibiades, section 13 (search)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 4, chapter 3 (search)
For instance, one cannot imagine the great-souled man running at full
speed when retreating in battle,Literally,
‘fleeing swinging his arms at his side,’ i.e. deficient in the
virtue of Courage. If this be the meaning, the phrase recalls by contrast the leisurely
retirement of Socrates from the stricken field of Delium (Plato, Plat. Sym.
221a). But the words have been taken with what follows, as illustrating
the lack of Justice or Honesty, and the whole translated either ‘outstripping
an opponent in a race by flinging the arms backward [which was considered
unsportsmanlike], nor fouling,’ or else ‘being prosecuted
on a charge of blackmailing, nor cheating in business.’ Emendation would give
a buried verse-quotation, ‘To swing his arms in flight, nor in
pursuit.’ nor acting dishonestly; since what motive for base conduct
has a man to whom nothing is great?i.e., nothing is of
much value in his eyes
While
these events were happening, at Delium in Boeotia a pitched battle took place between the Athenians and
the Boeotians for the following reasons. Certain Boeotians, who were restive under the form of
government which obtained at t f the betrayal he withdrew without accomplishing anything;
Hippocrates led the popular levy of the Athenians against Delium, seized the place, and threw a wall about it before the approach of the
Boeotians. The town lies near the territory us and the boundary of Boeotia.Oropus was the
last city of Attica on the coast before the border of
Boeotia. Delium lay near the coast in the territory of Tanagra.
Pagondas, who commanded the Boeotians, having summoned
soldiers from all the cities of Boeotia, came to
Delium with a great army, since he had little less
than twenty thousand infantry and about a thousand cavalry. The Athenians, although superior to the Boeotians in number, were not so well equipped
423 B.C.When Ameinias was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected as consuls Gaius Papirius and Lucius Junius. In this year the people of
Scione, holding the Athenians in contempt because
of their defeat at Delium, revolted to the
Lacedaemonians and delivered their city into the hands of Brasidas, who was in command of the
Lacedaemonian forces in Thrace. In Lesbos, after the Athenian seizure of Mytilene, the exiles, who had escaped the capture in large numbers, had for some
time been trying to return to Lesbos, and they
succeeded at this time in rallying and seizing Antandrus,On the south coast of the Troad, some fifteen miles
from Lesbos. from which as their base they
then carried on war with the Athenians who were in possession of Mytilene. Exasperated by
this state of affairs the Athenian people sent against them as generals Aristeides and
Symmachus with an army. They put in at Lesbos and by
means of sustained assaults took
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 6, chapter 118 (search)
Datis journeyed with his army to Asia, and when he arrived at Myconos he saw a vision in his sleep. What that vision was is not told, but as soon as day broke Datis made a search of his ships. He found in a Phoenician ship a gilded image of Apollo, and asked where this plunder had been taken. Learning from what temple it had come, he sailed in his own ship to Delos.
The Delians had now returned to their island, and Datis set the image in the temple, instructing the Delians to carry it away to Theban Delium, on the coast opposite Chalcis.
Datis gave this order and sailed away, but the Delians never carried that statue away; twenty years later the Thebans brought it to Delium by command of an oracle.
As Agesipolis died childless, the kingdom devolved upon Cleombrotus, who was general in the battle at Leuctra against the Boeotians.371 B.C. Cleombrotus showed personal bravery, but fell when the battle was only just beginning. In great disasters Providence is peculiarly apt to cut off early the general, just as the Athenians lost Hippocrates the son of Ariphron, who commanded at Delium, and later on Leosthenes in Thessaly.424 B.C.
Agesipolis, the elder of the sons of Cleombrotus, is not a striking figure in history, and was succeeded by his younger brother Cleomenes. His first son was Acrotatus, his second Cleonymus. Acrotatus did not outlive his father, and when Cleomenes afterwards died, there arose a dispute about the throne between Cleonymus the son of Cleomenes and Areus the son of Acrotatus. So the senators acted as arbitrators, and decided that the dignity was the inheritance of Areus the son of Acrotatus, and not of Cleonymus.
Deprived of his kingship Cleonymus became violentl