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Demosthenes, Against Neaera, section 99 (search)
He did this from Thebes, through the
agency of Eurymachus, the son of Leontiadas, the Boeotarch,This title was given to the high officials at Thebes. The
story of the attack on Plataea is told in detail in Thuc. 2.2 ff. The date was 428
B.C. and the gates were opened at night by Naucleides and some
accomplices of his, who had been won over by bribes. The Plataeans, discovering
that the Thebans had got within the gates in the night and that their city had
been suddenly seized in time of peace, ran to bear aid and arrayed themselves
for battle. When day dawned, and they saw that the Thebans were few in number,
and that only their first ranks had entered—a heavy rain which had
fallen in the night prevented them from all getting in; for the river Asopus was
flowing full and was not ea
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS., CHAP. 59. (58.)—OR STONES THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM THE
CLOUDSI have already had occasion to remark, concerning this class of
phænomena, that there is no doubt of their actual occurrence,
although their
origin is still unexplained. . THE OPINION OF ANAXAGORAS RESPECTING
THEM. (search)
CHAP. 59. (58.)—OR STONES THAT HAVE FALLEN FROM THE
CLOUDSI have already had occasion to remark, concerning this class of
phænomena, that there is no doubt of their actual occurrence,
although their
origin is still unexplained.. THE OPINION OF ANAXAGORAS RESPECTING
THEM.
The Greeks boast that AnaxagorasThe life of Anaxagoras has been written by Diogenes Laërtius. We
have an ample account of him by Enfield in the General Biography, in
loco; he was born B.C. 500 and died B.C. 428., the Clazomenian, in
the second year of the 78th Olympiad, from his knowledge
of what relates to the heavens, had predicted, that at a certain
time, a stone would fall from the sunThere is some variation in the exact date assigned by different authors
to this event; in the Chronological table in Brewster's Encyc. vi. 420, it
is said to have occurred 467 B.C.. And the thing accordingly
happened, in the daytime, in a part of Thrace, at
the river Ægos. The stone is now to be seen, a waggonload in size
and of
A'lcidas
（*)Alki/das), was appointed, B. C. 428, commander of the Peloponnesian fleet, which was sent to Lesbos for the relief of Mytilene, then besieged by the Athenians. But Mytilene surrendered to the Athenians seven days before the Peloponnesian fleet arrived on the coast of Asia ; and Alcidas, who, like most of the Spartan commanders, had little enterprise, resolved to return home, although he was recommended either to attempt the recovery of Mytilene or to make a descent upon the Ionian coast. While sailing along the coast, he captured many vessels, and put to deaths all the Athenian allies whom he took. From Ephesus he sailed home with the utmost speed, being chased by the Athenian fleet, under Paches, as far as Patmos. (Thuc. 3.16, 26-33.)
After receiving reinforcements, Alcidas sailed to Corcyra, B. C. 427; and when the Athenians and Corcyraeans sailed out to meet him, he defeated them and drove them back to the island.
With his habitual caution, however, he would not follow