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and Boeotia and where there is no skill in speech they have simply an ordinance that it is seemly to gratify lovers, and no one whether young or old will call it shameful, in order, I suppose, to save themselves the trouble of trying what speech can do to persuade the youths; for they have no ability for speaking. But in Ionia and many other regions where they live under foreign sway, it is counted a disgrace. Foreigners hold this thing,
And moreover, in regard to the Sicilian business,The disastrous Sicilian expedition of 415-413 B.C. Cf. Thuc. vi. and vii. many will tell you what I said about the destruction of the army. As to bygones, you may hear from those who know: but there is an opportunity now of testing the worth of what the sign says. For as the handsome Sannio was setting out on campaign, the sign occurred to me, and he has gone now with Thrasyllus on an expedition bound for Ephesus and Ionia.409 B.C., when Thrasyllus succeeded in recovering Colophon for Athens. He was one of the commanders put to death by the Athenians after the battle of Arginusae, 406 B.C. I accordingly expect him to be either killed or brought very near it, and I have great fears for our force as a whole.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 2 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 12 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 89 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 137 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 2, chapter 9 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 31 (search)
These words of Teutiaplus failing to move
Alcidas, some of the Ionian exiles and the Lesbians with the expedition
began to urge him, since this seemed too dangerous, to seize one of the
Ionian cities or the Aeolic town of Cyme, to use as a base for effecting the
revolt of Ionia.
This was by no means a hopeless enterprise, as their coming was welcome
everywhere; their object would be by this move to deprive Athens of her chief source of
revenue, and at the same time to saddle her with expense, if she chose to
blockade them; and they would probably induce Pissuthnes to join them in the war.
However, Alcidas gave this proposal as bad a reception as the other, being
eager, since he had come too late for
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 32 (search)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3, chapter 33 (search)