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426 B.C.When Euthynes was archon in Athens, the
Romans elected in place of consuls three military tribunes, Marcus Fabius, Marcus Falinius, and
Lucius Servilius. In this year the Athenians, who had enjoyed a period of relief from the
plague,Cp. chap. 45. became involved again in the
same misfortunes; for they were so seriously attacked by the
disease that of their soldiers they lost more than four thousand infantry and four hundred
cavalry, and of the rest of the population, both free and slave, more than ten thousand. And
since history seeks to ascertain the cause of the malignancy of this disease, it is our duty to
explain these matters. As a
result of heavy rains in the previous winter the ground had become soaked with water, and many
low-lying regions, having received a vast amount of water, turned into shallow pools and held
stagnant water, very much as marshy regions do; and when these waters became warm in the summer
Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous), line 1 (search)
Aristophanes, Acharnians (ed. Anonymous), line 263 (search)
DICAEOPOLIS
Oh, Phales,The god of generation, worshipped in the form of a phallus. companion of the orgies
of Bacchus, night reveller, god of adultery, friend of young men, these
past sixA remark which fixes the date of the production of The Acharnians, viz. the sixth year of the Peloponnesian War, 426 B.C. years I have not been able to invoke thee. With what joy I
return to my farmstead, thanks to the truce I have concluded, freed
from cares, from fighting and from Lamachuses!Lamachus was an Athenian general, who figures later in this comedy. How much sweeter,
oh Phales, oh, Phales, is it to surprise Thratta, the pretty woodmaid,
Strymodorus' slave, stealing wood from Mount Phelleus, to catch her
under the arms, to throw her on the ground and possess her, Oh, Phales,
Phales! If thou wilt drink and bemuse thyself with me, we shall
to-morrow consume some good dish in honour of the peace, and I will
hang up my buckler over the smoking hearth.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Agis Ii.
the 17th of the Eurypontid line (beginning with Procles), succeeded his father Archidamus, B. C. 427, and reigned a little more than 28 years.
In the summer of B. C. 426, he led an army of Peloponnesians and their allies as far as the isthmus, with the intention of invading Attica; but they were deterred from advancing farther by a succession of earthquakes which happened when they had got so far. (Thuc. 3.89.)
In the spring of the following year he led an army into Attica, but quitted it fifteen days after he had entered it. (Thuc. 4.2, 6.) In B. C. 419, the Argives, at the instigation of Alciblades, attacked Epidaurus; and Agis with the whole force of Lacedaemon set out at the same time and marched to the frontier city, Leuctra. No one, Thucydides tells us, knew the purpose of this expedition.
It was probably to make a diversion in favour of Epidaurus. (Thirlwall, vol. iii. p. 342.) At Leuctra the aspect of the sacrifices deterred him from proceeding.
He therefore led his