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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 16 | 16 | Browse | Search |
| Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Politics | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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428
B.C.When Diotimus was
archon in Athens, the Romans elected as consuls
Gaius Julius and Proculus Verginius Tricostus, and the Eleians celebrated the Eighty-eighth
Olympiad, that in which Symmachus of Messene in
Sicily won the "stadion." In this year Cnemus, the Lacedaemonian admiral, who was inactive in Corinth, decided to seize the Peiraeus. He had received
information that no ships in the harbour had been put into the water for duty and no soldiers
had been detailed to guard the port; for the Athenians, as he learned, had become negligent
about guarding it because they by no means expected any enemy would have the audacity to seize
the place. Consequently Cnemus, launching forty triremes which
had been hauled up on the beach at Megara, sailed
by night to Salamis, and falling unexpectedly on the
fortress on Salamis called Boudorium, he towed away
three ships and overran the entire island. When the
Salaminians