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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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Plato, Menexenus, section 242a (search)
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
Plato, Menexenus, section 242b (search)
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;