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297 BC - 296 BC (search for this): book 16, chapter 76
317 BC - 289 BC (search for this): book 11, chapter 38
319 BC (search for this): book 10, chapter 9
Pythagoras, in addition to his other injunctions, commanded
his pupils rarely to take an oath, and, when they did swear an oath, to abide by it under any
circumstances and to bring to fulfilment whatever they have sworn to do; and that they should
never reply as did Lysander the Laconian and Demades the Athenian,Lysander, a Spartan admiral, died in 395 B.C.;
Demades, the orator, in 319 B.C. Antipater once remarked of Demades,
when he was an old man, that "he was like a victim when the sacrifice was
over—nothing left but tongue and guts" (Plut. Phocion,
1). the former of whom once declared that boys should be cheated with dice and
men with oaths, and Demades affirmed that in the case of oaths, as in all other affairs, the
most profitable course is the one to choose, and that it was his observation that the perjurer
forthwith continued to possess the things regarding which he had taken the oath, whereas the
man who had kept his
323 BC (search for this): book 17, chapter 113
323 BC (search for this): book 15, chapter 20
324 BC (search for this): book 17, chapter 106
324 BC (search for this): book 17, chapter 109
While the Olympic Games were being celebrated, Alexander had it proclaimed in Olympia
that all exiles should return to their cities, except those who had been charged with sacrilege
or murder.Curtius 10.2.4-7;
Justin 13.5.2-5. Diodorus refers to this later with greater
detail as one of the causes of the Lamian War (Book 18.8.2-7). The time was midsummer of 324 B.C. He selected the oldest of his soldiers who were
Macedonians and released them from service; there were ten thousand of these. He learned that many of them were in debt, and in a single day he paid
their obligations which were little short of ten thousand talents.This story appears in differing versions. Curtius
10.2.9-11 tells only of the payment of the debts, without specifying either the number
or the identity of the beneficiaries; 10,000 talents were made available, and 130 were left
over. Justin 12.11.2-3 says that 20,000 talents were
distributed, an act equally
324 BC (search for this): book 17, chapter 110
325/4 B.C.In the archonship of Anticles at Athens, the Romans installed
as consuls Lucius Cornelius and Quintus Popillius.Anticles
was archon at Athens from July 325 to June 324 B.C. L. Cornelius
Lentulus and Q. Publilius Philo were consuls in 327 B.C. (Broughton,
1.145). In his narrative, Diodorus has reached, actually, the late summer of 324 B.C. The narrative of Curtius is lost down to the story of
Alexander's death. In this year Alexander secured replacements fr324 B.C. The narrative of Curtius is lost down to the story of
Alexander's death. In this year Alexander secured replacements from the Persians equal
to the number of these soldiers whom he had released, and assigned a thousand of them to the
bodyguardsArrian. 7.6.3
states that these thousand formed a fifth squadron of the Companion Cavalry. stationed
at the court. In all respects he showed the same confidence in them as in the Macedonians.
At this time Peucestes arrived with twenty thousand Persian
bowmen and slingers. Alexander placed these in units with his other soldiers, and by the
324 BC (search for this): book 17, chapter 113
324 BC - 323 BC (search for this): book 17, chapter 111