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Often appears with: fate, destiny, and necessity · omens, portents, and signs · diplomacy and embassies · truce for lysander’s body · tribute demands · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · thebes and delphi · taxation, tribute, and revenue · tanagra and asopos region · strategy and the aims of war · spartan invasion triggers plague outbreak · sinking confidence and prophetic warnings
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“in which they had been bound, they hung up on the Acropolis; and these were still existing even to my time hanging on walls which had been scorched with fire by the Mede” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 · observation
“Athenians, I lay up these words of mine as a trust to you, charging you to keep them secret and tell them to no one except only to Pausanias, lest ye bring me to ruin” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 · precept
“if after all Mardonios should put off the battle and not bring it on, stay where ye are and hold out patiently; for they have provisions only for a few days remaining.” Herodotus, The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 · precept
“Lysander, it appears, having received an oracle, as follows: -- Sounding Hoplites see thou bear in mind, And the earthborn dragon following behind.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · observation
Thucydides records contemporary interpretations of the plague—misquoted verses, recalled Spartan oracles, and the claim it began with the Spartan invasion of Attica—then shifts back to military ravaging by the Peloponnesians.
dead body upon the stranger’s pyre and ignited it; sometimes they tossed the corpse which they were carrying on the top of another that was burning, and so went off. Nor was this the only form of lawless extravagance which owed its origin to the plague. Men now coolly ventured on what they had formerly done in a corner, and not just as they pleased, seeing the rapid transitions produced by persons in prosperity sudd…
Latinus interprets the Trojan party as foretold by Faunus, agrees to admit them and offers royal alliance, but states his daughter Lavinia must marry a foreign war-chief, then grants horses and a heavenly pair of coursers.
employ; This royal robe and this tiara wore Old Priam, and this golden scepter bore In full assemblies, and in solemn games; These purple vests were weav’d by Dardan dames.” Thus while he spoke, Latinus roll’d around His eyes, and fix’d a while upon the ground. Intent he seem’d, and anxious in his breast; Not by the scepter mov’d, or kingly vest, But pond’ring future things of wondrous weight…
Spartan elders refuse to retrieve Lysander’s body without fighting, but Pausanias secures a truce, buries Lysander near the Boeotian frontier; local traditions explain the place-name Hoplites and associated prophecies.
Pausanias as he was on the way from Plataea to Thespiae, and having set his army in order he came to Haliartus; Thrasybulus, also, came from Thebes, leading the Athenians. Pausanias proposing to request the bodies of the dead under truce, the elders of the Spartans took it ill, and were angry among themselves, and coming to the king, declared that Lysander should not be taken away upon any conditions; if they fought…
The Thebans consult Delphi and recruit Egina after interpreting the oracle via Asopos' daughters; the Eginetans then attack Attica without notice, devastating Phaleron and coastal demes.
The Athenians then, though attacked on more sides than one, thought that they would remember the Boeotians and Chalkidians afterwards, and arrayed themselves against the Peloponnesians who were in Eleusis. 75. Then as the armies were just about the join battle, the Corinthians first, considering with themselves that they were not acting rightly, changed their minds and departed; and after that Demaratos the son of A…
This passage is further line-by-line scholarly annotation on Greek wording, including notes on inferred meanings, disputed readings, and references to execution places and oracles.
and {arthmios} elsewhere is the opposite of {polemios}, cp. vi. 83 and ix. 9, 37: Xerxes professes enmity only against those who had refused to give the tokens of submission.] 96 [ {men mounoisi}: these words are omitted in some good MSS., and {mounoisi} has perhaps been introduced from the preceding sentence. The thing referred to in {touto} is the power of fighting in single combat with many at once, which Demarat…
Herodotus discusses competing oracles (Bakis, Musaios) and names the region near Tanagra, then Alexander of Macedon rides to the Athenian guardposts at night to warn them Mardonios will fight at dawn.
riding on a horse out of the camp of the Medes, who discovered nothing further, but only named the generals and said that he desired to have speech with them.. 45. Having heard this, forthwith they accompanied the men to the guard-posts, and when they had arrived there, Alexander thus spoke to them: "Athenians, I lay up these words of mine as a trust to you, charging you to keep them secret and tell them to no one e…
After Samos’s siege, Polycrates sends gilded lead coins to the Lacedaemonians so they will depart; Samians then sail to Siphnos, where a Delphic oracle leads to conflict over tribute and a payment of a hundred talents.
and many of them were cut off by the Samians and shut out of the city; and the Samians after this imposed upon them a payment of a hundred talents. 59. Then from the men of Hermion they received by payment of money the island of Hydrea, which is near the coast of Peloponnese, and they gave it in charge to the Troizenians, but they themselves settled at Kydonia which is in Crete, not sailing thither for that purpose …