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of the war against the men at Eleusis.i.e. the oligarchical party at Athens who held sway for about eighteen months (404-403 B.C.) till ousted by the democrats under Thrasybulus. And the cause of all these actions was nothing else than that genuine kinship which produces, not in word only but in deed, a firm friendship founded on community of race. And of those who fell in this war also it is meet to make mention and to reconcile them by such means as we can under present conditions,—by prayer, that is, and by sacrifice,—praying for them to those that have them in their keeping, seeing that we ourselves also have been reconcile
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 114 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 19 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 20 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 21 (search)
In the meanwhile, as long as the army was at
Eleusis and the Thriasian plain, hopes were still entertained of its not
advancing any nearer.
It was remembered that Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, king of Lacedaemon,
had invaded Attica with a Peloponnesian army fourteen years before, but had
retreated without advancing farther than EEleusis and Thria, which indeed
proved the cause of his exile from Sparta, as it was thought he had been
bribed to retreat.
But when they saw the army at Acharnae, barely seven miles from Athens,
they lost all patience.
The territory of Athens was being ravaged before the very eyes of the
Athenians, a sight which the young men had never seen before and the
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 4, chapter 68 (search)
Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 3 (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 7, line 404 (search)
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK VII, INTRODUCTION (search)