Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades, Volume 3C. Scribner's sons, 1912 - 335 pages |
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Alci Alcibiades alliance allies Andocides Argives Argos Aristides Aristophanes army Assembly Athe Athenian fleet Athenians Athens attack Attica battle biades Boeotians brought captured Catana chap chapter Cimon cited citizens Cleon comic poets command Corinthian death defeated Delos democracy Demosthenes Diodorus Egesta embassy enemy envoys Ephorus Epipolae Euripides Eurymedon exile favor fear forces Four Hundred friends Greek Gylippus harbor Hell Hellenes Hellespont Hermae Hyperbolus Introd Ionia island King Lacedaemonians Lamachus land Lysander nians Nicias Nicias and Alcibiades oligarchical oration ostracised ostracism party peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles Phaeax Pharnabazus Philistus Phrynichus Plato Plutarch political probably Pylos revolt sail Samos sent ships Sicilian expedition Sicily Socrates Sparta speech Sphacteria spring story summer Syracusans Syracuse Themistocles Theophrastus Theopompus Thrace Thrasyllus Thuc Thucydides Timaeus tion Tissaphernes took triremes truce victory viii vote walls winter Xenophon xviii XXIII
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Page 6 - And very likely the strictly historical character of my narrative may be disappointing to the ear. But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.
Page 7 - For twenty years I was banished from my country after I held the command at Amphipolis, and associating with both sides, with the Peloponnesians quite as much as with the Athenians, because of my exile, I was thus enabled to watch quietly the course of events.
Page 249 - Hellenic actions which are on record, this was the greatest — the most glorious to the victors, the most ruinous to the vanquished; for they were utterly and at all point defeated, and their sufferings were prodigious.
Page 184 - Themistocles had before this given a counsel which prevailed very seasonably. The Athenians, having a large sum of money in their treasury, the produce of the mines at Laureium, were about to share it among the full-grown citizens, who would have received ten drachmas apiece, when Themistocles persuaded them to forbear the distribution, and build with the money two hundred ships, to help them in their war against die Eginetans.
Page 267 - I met them and told them not to be discouraged, and promised to remain with them; and there you might see him, Aristophanes, as you describe, just as he is in the streets of Athens, stalking like a pelican, and rolling his eyes, calmly contemplating enemies as well as friends, and making very intelligible to anybody, even from a distance, that whoever attacks him will be likely to meet with a stout resistance...
Page 249 - Demosthenes they put to the sword, although against the will of Gylippus. For Gylippus thought that to carry home with him to Lacedaemon the generals of the enemy, over and above all his other successes, would be a brilliant triumph. One of them, Demosthenes, happened to be the greatest foe, and the other the greatest friend, of the Lacedaemonians, both in the same matter of Pylos and Sphacteria. For Nicias had taken up their cause, and had persuaded the Athenians to make the peace which set at liberty...
Page 278 - Well, the Meleans still refused, and their town was taken. "The Athenians," Thucydides quietly says, "thereupon put to death all who were of military age and made slaves of the women and children. They then colonized the island, sending thither five hundred settlers of their own.
Page 179 - deriving authority from his capacity and acknowledged worth, being also a man of transparent integrity, was able to control the multitude in a free spirit ; he led them rather than was led by them ; for, not seeking power by dishonest arts, he had no need to say pleasant things, but, on the strength of his own high character, could venture to oppose and even to anger them. When he saw them...
Page 266 - I will also tell, if you please —and indeed I am bound to tell— of his courage in battle; for who but he saved my life? Now this was the engagement in which I received the prize of valour: for I was wounded and he would not leave me, but he rescued me and my arms...
Page 253 - Athens, but the Athenians could not believe that the armament had been so completely annihilated, although they had the positive assurances of the very soldiers who had escaped from the scene of action. At last they knew the truth; and then they were furious with the orators who had joined in promoting the expedition — as if they had not voted it themselves...