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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 46 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Coelius, Milo, Ligarius, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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in defence of all the other Greek-speaking peoples as well as themselves. But when peace was secured and our city was held in honor, there followed the usual consequence which the successful suffer at the hands of men; for it was assailed by jealousy first, and after jealousy by envy; and thereby our city was plunged against its will into war with the Greeks. Thereupon, when war had broken out, they encountered the Lacedaemonians at TanagraB.C. 457. while fighting in defence of
the liberties of the Boeotians; and though the battle itself was indecisive, it was decided by the subsequent result. For whereas the enemy retired and made off, deserting those whom they had come to assist, our men won a victory after a two days' battle at Oenophyta,Oenophyta was fought two months after Tanagra, Thucyd. i. 108. and rightfully restored those who were wrongfully exiled. These were the first of our men who, after the Persian war and now helping Greeks against Greeks in the cause of freedom, proved themselves men of valor and delivered those whom they were aiding;