Syracuse ...Story of Harmodius and Aristogiton - Disgrace of Alcibiades[edit] Meanwhile at Syracuse news came in from many quarters of the expedition, but for a long while met...
Syracuse
81 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Corcyra ...craft and the rest of the expedition, had already received orders to muster at Corcyra, to cross the Ionian Sea from thence in a body to the Iapygian promontory. But...
Corcyra
81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Athens ...of the expedition generally, to do as they judged best for the interests of Athens. After this the preparations began; messages being sent to the allies and the...
Athens
78 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athens ...therefore, that we ought to take great numbers of heavy infantry, both from Athens and from our allies, and not merely from our subjects, but also any we may be...
Athens
78 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Lacedaemon ...to defend ourselves most effectually against the oligarchical machinations of Lacedaemon. 12"We should also remember that we are but now enjoying some respite from a...
Lacedaemon
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Alcibiades ...and the treasury, voted to send sixty ships to Sicily, under the command of Alcibiades, son of Clinias, Nicias, son of Niceratus, and Lamachus, son of Xenophanes, who...
Alcibiades
78 Athens ...this the Lacedaemonians sent to the Thracian Chalcidians, who had a truce with Athens from one ten days to another, urging them to join Perdiccas in the war, which...
Athens
81 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Macedonian ...home in their ships. Meanwhile the Athenians took by sea to Methone on the Macedonian border some cavalry of their own and the Macedonian exiles that were at Athens...
Macedonian
77 23.8626788,40.8401571,0 Zancle ...its name changed to Messina, after his old country. 5Himera was founded from Zancle by Euclides, Simus, and Sacon, most of those who went to the colony being...
Zancle
79 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Gelas ...year after the foundation of Syracuse. The town took its name from the river Gelas, the place where the citadel now stands, and which was first fortified, being...
Gelas
79 14.2855556,37.1849283,0 Euboea ...as I have said. 3Of the Hellenes, the first to arrive were Chalcidians from Euboea with Thucles, their founder. They founded Naxos and built the altar to Apollo...
Euboea
78 23.87,38.53,0 Motye ...abandoned most of their stations, and drawing together took up their abode in Motye, Soloeis, and Panormus, near the Elymi, partly because they confided in their...
Motye
80 Iberia ...that they were Iberians, driven by the Ligurians from the river Sicanus in Iberia. It was from them that the island, before called Trinacria, took its name of...
Iberia
77 -69.58333,-11.35,0 Tarentum ...hope of Sicily, and wishing to save Italy, rapidly crossed the Ionian Sea to Tarentum with the Corinthian, Pythen, two Laconian, and two Corinthian vessels, leaving...
Tarentum
79 -79.75977,40.60146,0 Tyrrhenia ...as allies to the Athenians: there also arrived three ships of fifty oars from Tyrrhenia. Meanwhile everything else progressed favourably for their hopes. The...
Tyrrhenia
80 Lamachus ...and restored to the Syracusans their dead under truce, receiving in return Lamachus and those who had fallen with him. The whole of their forces, naval and...
Lamachus
77 Syracuse ...Ordering the fleet to sail round from Thapsus into the great harbour of Syracuse, they descended at about dawn from Epipolae into the plain, and laying doors...
Syracuse
74 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Athens ...the Sicels, Naxians, and others; and thus, with the two hundred and fifty from Athens, for whom they had got horses from the Egestaeans and Catanians, besides others...
Athens
81 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Epipolae ...this way in considerable disorder, the Syracusans were defeated in battle at Epipolae and retired to the town, with a loss of about three hundred killed, and...
Epipolae
79 Epipolae ...and remained quiet at Thapsus, the land army immediately went on at a run to Epipolae, and succeeded in getting up by Euryelus before the Syracusans perceived them...
Epipolae
79 Syracuse ...running out into the sea, with a narrow isthmus, and not far from the city of Syracuse either by land or water. While the naval force of the Athenians threw a...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Overtown ...as it lies above the rest the place is called by the Syracusans Epipolae or Overtown. They accordingly went out in mass at daybreak into the meadow along the river...
Overtown
78 -3.91667,55.75,0 Thebes ...upon the party in office, which was not successful, but succours arrived from Thebes, and some were caught, while others took refuge at Athens. 96The same summer...
Thebes
80 23.255096,38.318092,0 Megara ...season, the Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana, and sailed along shore to Megara in Sicily, from which, as I have mentioned above, the Syracusans expelled the...
Megara
81 Hellas ...after this you will dwell in security and enjoy the supremacy over all Hellas, resting not on force but upon consent and affection." 93Such were the words of...
Hellas
73 22.5,37.5,0 Athens ...will save important cities in that island, and you will destroy the power of Athens both present and prospective; after this you will dwell in security and enjoy...
Athens
79 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Decelea ...the Athenians may be less able to reinforce their armament. You must fortify Decelea in Attica, the blow of which the Athenians are always most afraid and the only...
Decelea
79 Syracuse ...be so also, unless you speedily do as I tell you, and send on board ship to Syracuse troops that shall able to row their ships themselves, and serve as heavy...
Syracuse
78 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Catana ...Meanwhile the Athenians moved their winter quarters from Naxos to Catana, and reconstructed the camp burnt by the Syracusans, and stayed there the rest...
Catana
68 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Leontines ...let slip an opportunity once offered, as they have shown in the case of the Leontines and others, and now have the face, just as if you were fools, to invite you to...
Leontines
78 Hippias ...in faded letters, and is to the following effect: Pisistratus, the son of Hippias, Sent up this record of his archonship In precinct of Apollo...
Hippias
76 Camarina ...Syracuse, where they found no fleet manning, and so always along the coast to Camarina, where they brought to at the beach, and sent a herald to the people, who...
Camarina
80 14.44682,36.87229,0 Syracuse ...being their allies and kinsmen, and that such of them, therefore, as were in Syracuse should leave it without fear and join their friends and benefactors the...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Rhegium ...and coasted along to Naxos, leaving the rest of the armament behind them at Rhegium with one of their number. Received by the Naxians, they then coasted on to...
Rhegium
78 15.86494,38.39426,0 Naxos ...manned and victualled sixty ships out of the whole fleet and coasted along to Naxos, leaving the rest of the armament behind them at Rhegium with one of their...
Naxos
80 25.37699,37.10595,0 Syracuse ...on the other hand, said that they ought to sail straight to Syracuse, and fight their battle at once under the walls of the town while the people...
Syracuse
62 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Syracuse ...and knowing who would be their allies in the war, they might at length attack Syracuse and Selinus; unless the latter came to terms with Egesta and the former ceased...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Athens ...and then to coast past the other cities, and after displaying the power of Athens and proving their zeal for their friends and allies, to sail home again (unless...
Athens
77 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Eryx ...resources. They took the envoys in question to the temple of Aphrodite at Eryx and showed them the treasures deposited there: bowls, wine-ladles, censers, and...
Eryx
76 Athens ...had had recourse to the following stratagem, when the first envoys from Athens came to inspect their resources. They took the envoys in question to the temple...
Athens
74 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athens ...know whether there was really there the money mentioned by the messengers at Athens. 45In the meantime came in from all quarters to the Syracusans, as well as from...
Athens
79 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Ionian Sea ...before fighting for Sicily they must first fight for their passage across the Ionian Sea, we should strike dismay into their army, and set them on thinking that we have...
Ionian Sea
80 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 Leontines ...to us by being without arms and contributing money only; while the former, the Leontines and our other friends, cannot be too independent. 85"Besides, for tyrants and...
Leontines
81 Camarina ...and be now offering at Syracuse the aid which you would have asked for at Camarina, if to Camarina the Athenians had first come, to encourage us to resist the...
Camarina
76 14.44682,36.87229,0 Megara ...more difficult, in case of their being defeated, and also erected a fort at Megara and another in the Olympieum, and stuck palisades along the sea wherever there...
Megara
78 Syracuse ...corn and all other necessaries provided, for a campaign in the spring against Syracuse. 72With this intention they sailed off to Naxos and Catana for the winter...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Camarina ...numbering two hundred in all, with about twenty horse and fifty archers from Camarina. The cavalry was posted on their right, full twelve hundred strong, and next to...
Camarina
79 14.44682,36.87229,0 Hybla ...troops; and meanwhile went with half their own force to the hostile town of Hybla in the territory of Gela, but did not succeed in taking it. Summer was now...
Hybla
78 14.74761,36.92655,0 Hyccara ...the coast with the slaves on board. Meanwhile Nicias sailed straight from Hyccara along the coast and went to Egesta and, after transacting his other business...
Hyccara
76 13.180165,38.153624,0 Salaminia ...with his own ship and his fellow accused, accordingly sailed off with the Salaminia from Sicily, as though to return to Athens, and went with her as far as Thurii...
Salaminia
76 Alcibiades ...one night armed in the temple of Theseus within the walls. The friends also of Alcibiades at Argos were just at this time suspected of a design to attack the commons...
Alcibiades
81 Elymi ...ships to Sicily, and settled next to the Sicanians under the general name of Elymi; their towns being called Eryx and Egesta. With them settled some of the...
Elymi
79 12.845251913294362,37.92541241361173,0 Sicily ...departed from Lacedaemon. In the meantime arrived the Athenian galley from Sicily sent by the generals for money and cavalry; and the Athenians, after hearing...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...from that quarter will before long be upon you. None need therefore fancy that Sicily only is in question; Peloponnese will be so also, unless you speedily do as I...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...assert that we are rulers in Hellas in order not to be subjects; liberators in Sicily that we may not be harmed by the Sicilians; that we are compelled to interfere...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...positions round Peloponnese. In our settlement of the states here in Sicily, we should therefore; naturally be guided by our interest, and by fear, as we...
Sicily
71 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance. Here, in Sicily, our interest is not to weaken our friends, but by means of their strength to...
Sicily
71 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...makes us now come, with the help of our friends, to order safely matters in Sicily, and not to enslave any but rather to prevent any from being enslaved...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...city, and they may perhaps think that they might themselves suffer by letting Sicily be sacrificed, and be willing to help us secretly if not openly, in one way if...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...had an adequate force of heavy infantry throughout this war. The states in Sicily, therefore, from all that I can hear, will be found as I say, and I have not...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...therefore, if we are wise, will not be for the barbarian Egestaeans in Sicily, but how to defend ourselves most effectually against the oligarchical...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...in the spring of the following summer the Athenian envoys arrived from Sicily, and the Egestaeans with them, bringing sixty talents of uncoined silver, as a...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...the Selinuntines. 7The envoys of the Athenians were accordingly dispatched to Sicily. The same winter the Lacedaemonians and their allies, the Corinthians excepted...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...being afterwards expelled by some Samians and other Ionians who landed in Sicily flying from the Medes, and the Samians in their turn not long afterwards by...
Sicily
76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to Libya, and afterwards from thence to Sicily. The Sicels crossed over to Sicily from their first home Italy, flying from the Opicans, as tradition says and as...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...fall of Ilium, some of the Trojans escaped from the Achaeans, came in ships to Sicily, and settled next to the Sicanians under the general name of Elymi; their towns...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...Corinth were now off Leucas, intent upon going with all haste to the relief of Sicily. The reports that reached them being of an alarming kind, and all agreeing in...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Italy ...over in some other way. Even at the present day there are still Sicels in Italy; and the country got its name of Italy from Italus, a king of the Sicels, so...
Italy
76 12.5,42.5,0 Sicily ...from Italus, a king of the Sicels, so called. These went with a great host to Sicily, defeated the Sicanians in battle and forced them to remove to the south and...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...their way from Troy by a storm, first to Libya, and afterwards from thence to Sicily. The Sicels crossed over to Sicily from their first home Italy, flying from the...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Athens ...the Mede, in a great measure due to accidental causes, from the mere fact that Athens had been the object of his attack; and this may very well be the case with us...
Athens
81 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Aegina ...they put out to sea, and first out in column then raced each other as far as Aegina, and so hastened to reach Corcyra, where the rest of the allied forces were...
Aegina
79 23.4275,37.74667,0 Ionian Sea ...the expedition, had already received orders to muster at Corcyra, to cross the Ionian Sea from thence in a body to the Iapygian promontory. But the Athenians themselves...
Ionian Sea
81 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 Hellas ...have undertaken in the quality of allies, among your subject states here in Hellas, where any additional supplies needed were easily drawn from the friendly...
Hellas
78 22.5,37.5,0 Selinus ...also money, partly in the hands of private persons, partly in the temples at Selinus, and at Syracuse first-fruits from some of the barbarians as well. But their...
Selinus
79 12.8249,37.58406,0 Hellas ...not assisted us. We did not take them into alliance to have them to help us in Hellas, but that they might so annoy our enemies in Sicily as to prevent them from...
Hellas
81 22.5,37.5,0 The states ...and has hardly had an adequate force of heavy infantry throughout this war. The states in Sicily, therefore, from all that I can hear, will be found as I say, and I...
The states
78 6.5,46.5,0 Sparta ...nominal it has become, owing to the practices of certain men here and at Sparta--but which in the event of a serious reverse in any quarter would not delay our...
Sparta
75 22.42454,37.08149,0 Methone ...the Athenians went home in their ships. Meanwhile the Athenians took by sea to Methone on the Macedonian border some cavalry of their own and the Macedonian exiles...
Methone
81 Orneae ...of oxen and carried off some corn. They also settled the Argive exiles at Orneae, and left them a few soldiers taken from the rest of the army; and after making...
Orneae
76 Athens ...for their depopulation of Leontini, to ruin the allies still left to Athens in Sicily, and to get the whole power of the island into their hands, there...
Athens
71 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athens ...But they were especially incited by envoys from Egesta, who had come to Athens and invoked their aid more urgently than ever. The Egestaeans had gone to war...
Athens
74 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Zancle ...and Crataemenes from Cuma and Chalcis respectively. It first had the name of Zancle given it by the Sicels, because the place is shaped like a sickle, which the...
Zancle
79 15.5555232,38.1923323,0 Cuma ...helped to people the place; the founders being Perieres and Crataemenes from Cuma and Chalcis respectively. It first had the name of Zancle given it by the...
Cuma
79 14.0530815,40.8476994,0 Euboea ...Opicans: afterwards, however, large numbers came from Chalcis and the rest of Euboea, and helped to people the place; the founders being Perieres and Crataemenes...
Euboea
80 23.87,38.53,0 Leontini ...and afterwards leaving it and for a short while joining the Chalcidians at Leontini, was driven out by them and founded Thapsus. After his death his companions...
Leontini
77 15.002988,37.279759,0 Carthage ...alliance, and also because these are the nearest points for the voyage between Carthage and Sicily. These were the barbarians in Sicily, settled as I have said. 3Of...
Carthage
81 -82.68183,39.95729,0 Panathenaea ...to join them in the enterprise, they only waited for the great feast of the Panathenaea, the sole day upon which the citizens forming part of the procession could meet...
Panathenaea
78 Athens ...some one of the family. Among those of them that held the yearly archonship at Athens was Pisistratus, son of the tyrant Hippias, and named after his grandfather...
Athens
81 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Salaminia ...up of the Syracusan horse, so got back to Catana. 53There they found the Salaminia come from Athens for Alcibiades, with orders for him to sail home to answer the...
Salaminia
75 Rhegium ...the three ships that had been sent on came from Egesta to the Athenians at Rhegium, with the news that so far from there being the sums promised, all that could...
Rhegium
77 15.86494,38.39426,0 Megara ...hundred slingers from Rhodes, one hundred and twenty light-armed exiles from Megara, and one horse-transport carrying thirty horses. 44Such was the strength of the...
Megara
79 Hellas ...the Peloponnesians behind them, and before they have well ended the war in Hellas wantonly come in quest of a new war quite as arduous in Sicily; indeed, in my...
Hellas
77 22.5,37.5,0 Syracuse ...is what I am sure of." 35Thus far spoke Hermocrates. Meanwhile the people of Syracuse were at great strife among themselves; some contending that the Athenians had...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Carthage ...refuse to receive the Athenians. I also think that it would be best to send to Carthage as well; they are by no means there without apprehension, but it is their...
Carthage
81 -82.68183,39.95729,0 Hellas ...as possible, to help us by annoying the Syracusans from their frontier. In Hellas we are alone a match for our enemies; and as for the assertion that it is out...
Hellas
77 22.5,37.5,0 Hellas ...reason that they should restore in Sicily the cities that they lay waste in Hellas, or should cherish the Leontine Chalcidians because of their Ionian blood and...
Hellas
78 22.5,37.5,0 Camarina ...of their old friendship. Hermocrates, with some others, accordingly arrived at Camarina from Syracuse, and Euphemus and others from the Athenians; and an assembly of...
Camarina
81 14.44682,36.87229,0 Camarina ...so returned home. Learning also that the Athenians were sending an embassy to Camarina, on the strength of the alliance concluded in the time of Laches, to gain, if...
Camarina
80 14.44682,36.87229,0 Athens ...cavalry--and money should have been collected in the country and received from Athens, and until some of the cities, which they hoped would be now more disposed to...
Athens
81 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athens ...carry on the war before Syracuse, until horse should have been sent for from Athens and levied among the allies in Sicily--to do away with their utter inferiority...
Athens
79 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Daskon ...ships, and with stones which they picked up and wood hastily raised a fort at Daskon, the most vulnerable point of their position, and broke down the bridge over...
Daskon
80 15.2919,37.03597,0 Catana ...seize their camping ground, and the Syracusan horse having ridden up first to Catana and found that all the armament had put to sea, turned back and told the...
Catana
80 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Himera ...the shore on their left, on the side towards the Tyrrhene Gulf they touched at Himera, the only Hellenic city in that part of the island, and being refused admission...
Himera
81 13.82184,37.96884,0 Salaminia ...It was therefore decided to bring him to trial and execute him, and the Salaminia was sent to Sicily for him and the others named in the information, with...
Salaminia
74 Sicily ...next summer, at the very beginning of the season, the Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana, and sailed along shore to Megara in Sicily, from which, as...
Sicily
69 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...anything, by force or through your isolation, to become the masters of Sicily. And masters they must become, if you unite with them; as a force of that...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...be quarrelled with for providing for his proper safety. If we are now here in Sicily, it is equally in the interest of our security, with which we perceive that...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...earnest to the war against the Athenians, that they might either have to leave Sicily or be less able to send reinforcements to their army there. 74The Athenian...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...cities as we are. 37"However, if they should come as is reported, I consider Sicily better able to go through with the war than Peloponnese, as being at all points...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...themselves, but are concocted by men who are always causing agitation here in Sicily. However, if you are well advised, you will not be guided in your calculation...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...the friendship and alliance of others, and dispatch envoys to the rest of Sicily to show that the danger is common to all, and to Italy to get them to become...
Sicily
76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to have them to help us in Hellas, but that they might so annoy our enemies in Sicily as to prevent them from coming over here and attacking us. It is thus that...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...utmost of the services of us both. Neither rescind your resolution to sail to Sicily, on the ground that you would be going to attack a great power. The cities in...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...assembly was convened to consider the preparations to be made for sailing to Sicily, I think, notwithstanding, that we have still this question to examine, whether...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...choosing Evarchus as their founder. 4About the same time Lamis arrived in Sicily with a colony from Megara, and after founding a place called Trotilus beyond...
Sicily
76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...town, and upon which the deputies for the games sacrifice before sailing from Sicily. Syracuse was founded the year afterwards by Archias, one of the Heraclids from...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...centre and north of the island. There were also Phoenicians living all round Sicily, who had occupied promontories upon the sea coasts and the islets adjacent for...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...parts of the country for near three hundred years before any Hellenes came to Sicily; indeed they still hold the centre and north of the island. There were also...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Italy ...envoys to the rest of Sicily to show that the danger is common to all, and to Italy to get them to become our allies, or at all events to refuse to receive the...
Italy
80 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...invested, Gylippus abandoned all hope of Sicily, and wishing to save Italy, rapidly crossed the Ionian Sea to Tarentum with the Corinthian, Pythen, two...
Italy
71 12.5,42.5,0 Syca ...fifty cavalry in all. After posting a garrison in Labdalum, they advanced to Syca, where they sat down and quickly built the Circle or centre of their wall of...
Syca
79 Egesta ...at the lines. 98Not long afterwards three hundred cavalry came to them from Egesta, and about a hundred from the Sicels, Naxians, and others; and thus, with the...
Egesta
78 12.839871,37.939199,0 Andros ...a picked body of six hundred, under the command of Diomilus, an exile from Andros, to guard Epipolae, and to be ready to muster at a moment's notice to help...
Andros
77 24.86222,37.8528,0 Alcibiades ...resting not on force but upon consent and affection." 93Such were the words of Alcibiades. The Lacedaemonians, who had themselves before intended to march against...
Alcibiades
81 Athens ...their allies, which will be paid less regularly, as they lose their awe of Athens and see you addressing yourselves with vigour to the war. 92The zeal and speed...
Athens
77 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Tyrrhenia ...proffers of friendship, on the chance of obtaining assistance, and another to Tyrrhenia; some of the cities there having spontaneously offered to join them in the war...
Tyrrhenia
80 Syracuse ...their subjugating Sicily, they had always been at enmity with their neighbour Syracuse. From the very fact, however, that they were their neighbours, they feared the...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Athens ...you first asked us over, the fear which you held out was that of danger to Athens if we let you come under the dominion of Syracuse; and it is not right now to...
Athens
77 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Ionian Sea ...abandoned all hope of Sicily, and wishing to save Italy, rapidly crossed the Ionian Sea to Tarentum with the Corinthian, Pythen, two Laconian, and two Corinthian...
Ionian Sea
79 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 Syracuse ...reached them being of an alarming kind, and all agreeing in the falsehood that Syracuse was already completely invested, Gylippus abandoned all hope of Sicily, and...
Syracuse
81 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Epipolae ...Thapsus into the great harbour of Syracuse, they descended at about dawn from Epipolae into the plain, and laying doors and planks over the marsh, where it was muddy...
Epipolae
80 Labdalum ...now mustered six hundred and fifty cavalry in all. After posting a garrison in Labdalum, they advanced to Syca, where they sat down and quickly built the Circle or...
Labdalum
81 Syracuse ...restored to the Syracusans their dead under truce, and next day descended to Syracuse itself; and no one coming out to meet them, reascended and built a fort at...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Thapsus ...of the Athenians threw a stockade across the isthmus and remained quiet at Thapsus, the land army immediately went on at a run to Epipolae, and succeeded in...
Thapsus
77 6.9055805,36.8814425,0 Thapsus ...Epipolae, where they disembarked their army, bringing the fleet to anchor at Thapsus, a peninsula running out into the sea, with a narrow isthmus, and not far from...
Thapsus
79 6.9055805,36.8814425,0 Athens ...arrived from Thebes, and some were caught, while others took refuge at Athens. 96The same summer the Syracusans learned that the Athenians had been joined by...
Athens
73 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athens ...and Hybleans. Upon their return to Catana they found the horsemen arrived from Athens, to the number of two hundred and fifty (with their equipments, but without...
Athens
81 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Catana ...also burning the corn of the Inessaeans and Hybleans. Upon their return to Catana they found the horsemen arrived from Athens, to the number of two hundred and...
Catana
77 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Catana ...at the very beginning of the season, the Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana, and sailed along shore to Megara in Sicily, from which, as I have mentioned...
Catana
76 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Asine ...Gylippus desired the Corinthians to send him at once two ships to Asine, and to prepare the rest that they intended to send, and to have them ready to...
Asine
68 22.75,36.75,0 Decelea ...the matter. Accordingly they now turned their attention to the fortifying of Decelea and sending immediate aid to the Sicilians; and naming Gylippus, son of...
Decelea
79 Athens ...The Lacedaemonians, who had themselves before intended to march against Athens, but were still waiting and looking about them, at once became much more in...
Athens
74 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Attica ...and I urge you to send without hesitation the expeditions to Sicily and Attica; by the presence of a small part of your forces you will save important cities...
Attica
74 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 the states ...remaining generals will, if they can, carry these out just the same. But that the states in Sicily must succumb if you do not help them, I will now show. Although the...
the states
80 6.5,46.5,0 Carthage ...and after them the Italiots also, and finally to assail the empire and city of Carthage. In the event of all or most of these schemes succeeding, we were then to...
Carthage
81 -82.68183,39.95729,0 Argives ...me. You had therefore no right to complain if I turned to the Mantineans and Argives, and seized other occasions of thwarting and injuring you; and the time has now...
Argives
79 27.833862,37.859752,0 Syracuse ...but as the ephors and the authorities, although resolved to send envoys to Syracuse to prevent their surrendering to the Athenians, showed no disposition to send...
Syracuse
77 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Lacedaemon ...to aid them heart and soul themselves, and then sent on envoys with them to Lacedaemon, to help them to persuade her also to prosecute the war with the Athenians more...
Lacedaemon
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Egesta ...offered to join them in the war. They also sent round to the Sicels and to Egesta, desiring them to send them as many horses as possible, and meanwhile prepared...
Egesta
77 12.839871,37.939199,0 Naxos ...and reinforcements. Meanwhile the Athenians moved their winter quarters from Naxos to Catana, and reconstructed the camp burnt by the Syracusans, and stayed there...
Naxos
79 25.37699,37.10595,0 Lampsacus ...seeing that they had great influence with Darius. And there is her tomb in Lampsacus with this inscription: Archedice lies buried in this earth, Hippias her sire...
Lampsacus
77 26.68556,40.34417,0 Lampsacus ...gave his daughter, Archedice, to a Lampsacene, Aeantides, son of the tyrant of Lampsacus, seeing that they had great influence with Darius. And there is her tomb in...
Lampsacus
81 26.68556,40.34417,0 Aristogiton ...with Hipparchus by the Leocorium recklessly fell upon him at once, infuriated, Aristogiton by love, and Harmodius by insult, and smote him and slew him. Aristogiton...
Aristogiton
81 Athenian Acropolis ...appears to have had children; as the altar shows, and the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis, commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus...
Athenian Acropolis
81 23.726584338316812,37.97155766815715,0 Athens ...horse, so got back to Catana. 53There they found the Salaminia come from Athens for Alcibiades, with orders for him to sail home to answer the charges which...
Athens
75 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Syracuse ...The Athenians accordingly sailed alongshore with all their armament, first to Syracuse, where they found no fleet manning, and so always along the coast to Camarina...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Catana ...with one of their number. Received by the Naxians, they then coasted on to Catana, and being refused admittance by the inhabitants, there being a Syracusan party...
Catana
77 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Syracuse ...from which to attack: it was an uninhabited place at no great distance from Syracuse either by land or by sea. 50After speaking to this effect, Lamachus...
Syracuse
78 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Leontini ...came to terms with Egesta and the former ceased to oppose the restoration of Leontini. 49Lamachus, on the other hand, said that they ought to sail straight to...
Leontini
79 15.002988,37.279759,0 Athens ...upon, from their relationship to the Leontines and constant friendship for Athens. If Nicias was prepared for the news from Egesta, his two colleagues were taken...
Athens
77 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Artemis ...admission within the walls pitched a camp outside the city in the precinct of Artemis, where a market was also provided for them, and drew their ships on shore and...
Artemis
80 30.593308,40.2863525,0 Corcyra ...followed the armament voluntarily for purposes of trade; all of which now left Corcyra and struck across the Ionian Sea together. The whole force making land at the...
Corcyra
81 19.92178,39.60733,0 Rhodes ...archers in all, eighty of whom were Cretans, seven hundred slingers from Rhodes, one hundred and twenty light-armed exiles from Megara, and one horse-transport...
Rhodes
75 151.0881,-33.82663,0 Athens ...in all, that is to say, fifteen hundred Athenian citizens from the rolls at Athens and seven hundred Thetes shipped as marines, and the rest allied troops, some...
Athens
78 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athenagoras ...always at hand the means of making itself respected." 41Such were the words of Athenagoras. One of the generals now stood up and stopped any other speakers coming...
Athenagoras
81 Syracuse ...could avoid annihilation if they brought with them another city as large as Syracuse, and settled down and carried on war from our frontier; much less can they hope...
Syracuse
78 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Corcyra ...consideration alone would be sufficient to deter them from putting out from Corcyra; and what with deliberating and reconnoitring our numbers and whereabouts, they...
Corcyra
78 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corinth ...war, like everything else, flourishes. Let us also send to Lacedaemon and Corinth, and ask them to come here and help us as soon as possible, and to keep alive...
Corinth
76 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Lacedaemon ...silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes. Let us also send to Lacedaemon and Corinth, and ask them to come here and help us as soon as possible, and to...
Lacedaemon
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Syracuse ...in the time of Laches, to gain, if possible, that city, they sent another from Syracuse to oppose them. They had a shrewd suspicion that the Camarinaeans had not sent...
Syracuse
81 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Helorine ...then went back and set up a trophy. Meanwhile the Syracusans rallied at the Helorine road, where they re-formed as well as they could under the circumstances, and...
Helorine
78 Catana ...did not want confidence, and who had intended even without this to march on Catana, believed the man without any sufficient inquiry, fixed at once a day upon...
Catana
78 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Egesta ...two parts, and, each taking one by lot, sailed with the whole for Selinus and Egesta, wishing to know whether the Egestaeans would give the money, and to look into...
Egesta
80 12.839871,37.939199,0 Peloponnese ...Up to this time incursions from Pylos, descents on the coast of the rest of Peloponnese, instead of on the Laconian, had been the extent of their co-operation with the...
Peloponnese
78 22.455300563721597,37.34902333912858,0 Athens ...the midst of these preparations all the stone Hermae in the city of Athens, that is to say the customary square figures, so common in the doorways of...
Athens
70 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Crete ...more; and the rest of the armament in proportion; archers from home and from Crete, and slingers, and whatever else might seem desirable, being got ready by the...
Crete
79 24.851629181781522,35.23102579604995,0 Alcibiades ...worse, and to live up to them as closely as one can." 19Such were the words of Alcibiades. After hearing him and the Egestaeans and some Leontine exiles, who came...
Alcibiades
81 Athens ...all other matters in Sicily as they should deem best for the interests of Athens. Five days after this a second assembly was held, to consider the speediest...
Athens
76 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Perdiccas ...and the Macedonian exiles that were at Athens, and plundered the country of Perdiccas. Upon this the Lacedaemonians sent to the Thracian Chalcidians, who had a truce...
Perdiccas
78 Athens ...border some cavalry of their own and the Macedonian exiles that were at Athens, and plundered the country of Perdiccas. Upon this the Lacedaemonians sent to...
Athens
74 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Leontini ...that if the Syracusans were allowed to go unpunished for their depopulation of Leontini, to ruin the allies still left to Athens in Sicily, and to get the whole power...
Leontini
81 15.002988,37.279759,0 Syracuse ...to the colony being Chalcidians; though they were joined by some exiles from Syracuse, defeated in a civil war, called the Myletidae. The language was a mixture of...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Syracuse ...in leading a colony thither, in the forty-fifth year after the foundation of Syracuse. The town took its name from the river Gelas, the place where the citadel now...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Crete ...in its foundation. Gela was founded by Antiphemus from Rhodes and Entimus from Crete, who joined in leading a colony thither, in the forty-fifth year after the...
Crete
81 24.851629181781522,35.23102579604995,0 Corinth ...Syracuse was founded the year afterwards by Archias, one of the Heraclids from Corinth, who began by driving out the Sicels from the island upon which the inner city...
Corinth
81 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Elymi ...drawing together took up their abode in Motye, Soloeis, and Panormus, near the Elymi, partly because they confided in their alliance, and also because these are the...
Elymi
81 12.845251913294362,37.92541241361173,0 the island ...by the Ligurians from the river Sicanus in Iberia. It was from them that the island, before called Trinacria, took its name of Sicania, and to the present day they...
the island
75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Italy ...to the sea. Provisions were now brought in for the armament from all parts of Italy; and many of the Sicels, who had hitherto been looking to see how things went...
Italy
80 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...and Locri not even that, until they arrived at Rhegium, the extreme point of Italy. Here at length they reunited, and not gaining admission within the walls...
Italy
79 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...and Tarentum, with more or less good fortune, coasted along the shores of Italy, the cities shutting their markets and gates against them, and according them...
Italy
76 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...from thence to Sicily. The Sicels crossed over to Sicily from their first home Italy, flying from the Opicans, as tradition says and as seems not unlikely, upon...
Italy
81 12.5,42.5,0 Libya ...some of the Phocians carried on their way from Troy by a storm, first to Libya, and afterwards from thence to Sicily. The Sicels crossed over to Sicily from...
Libya
75 26.5,31.5,0 Sicily ...will, if they can, carry these out just the same. But that the states in Sicily must succumb if you do not help them, I will now show. Although the Siceliots...
Sicily
75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...the war with the Athenians more openly at home and to send succours to Sicily. The envoys from Corinth having reached Lacedaemon found there Alcibiades with...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...the same policy which has proved so successful in Hellas is now being tried in Sicily. After being chosen as the leaders of the Ionians and of the other allies of...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to oust us from ours; as it is out of all reason that they should restore in Sicily the cities that they lay waste in Hellas, or should cherish the Leontine...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...what they would say to you before you heard anything from us. They are come to Sicily with the pretext that you know, and the intention which we all suspect, in my...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...and when they saw them sailing far away from them on the other side of Sicily, and going to Hybla only to fail in their attempts to storm it, they thought...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...they wished to avoid causing any agitation in the army or among the enemy in Sicily, and above all to retain the services of the Mantineans and Argives, who, it...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...of all to gain the Messinese, who lay right in the passage and entrance to Sicily, and would afford an excellent harbour and base for the army. Thus, after...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...the war in Hellas wantonly come in quest of a new war quite as arduous in Sicily; indeed, in my judgment, they are only too glad that we do not go and attack...
Sicily
76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...at all points superior to him, we shall still find it difficult to conquer Sicily or save ourselves. We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...expedition, and so humble the pride of the Peloponnesians by sailing off to Sicily, and letting them see how little we care for the peace that we are now...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...made you suddenly despise, tempting you further to aspire to the conquest of Sicily. Instead, however, of being puffed up by the misfortunes of your adversaries...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...a slight and specious pretext was aspiring to the conquest of the whole of Sicily, a great matter to achieve, came forward in the hope of diverting the Athenians...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...Geloans. 6Such is the list of the peoples, Hellenic and barbarian, inhabiting Sicily, and such the magnitude of the island which the Athenians were now bent upon...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...for the voyage between Carthage and Sicily. These were the barbarians in Sicily, settled as I have said. 3Of the Hellenes, the first to arrive were Chalcidians...
Sicily
75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...also because these are the nearest points for the voyage between Carthage and Sicily. These were the barbarians in Sicily, settled as I have said. 3Of the Hellenes...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...war not much inferior to that against the Peloponnesians. For the voyage round Sicily in a merchantman is not far short of eight days; and yet, large as the island...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily The same winter the Athenians resolved to sail again to Sicily, with a greater armament than that under Laches and Eurymedon, and, if...
Sicily
57 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...that Syracuse was already completely invested, Gylippus abandoned all hope of Sicily, and wishing to save Italy, rapidly crossed the Ionian Sea to Tarentum with the...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...Athenians in Sicily put out from Catana, and sailed along shore to Megara in Sicily, from which, as I have mentioned above, the Syracusans expelled the inhabitants...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 the island ...armament than that under Laches and Eurymedon, and, if possible, to conquer the island; most of them being ignorant of its size and of the number of its inhabitants...
the island
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to remove to the south and west of the island, which thus came to be called Sicily instead of Sicania, and after they crossed over continued to enjoy the richest...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Corinth ...in their stead. 104Meanwhile the Lacedaemonian, Gylippus, and the ships from Corinth were now off Leucas, intent upon going with all haste to the relief of Sicily...
Corinth
79 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Epipolae ...of their forces, naval and military, being now with them, they began from Epipolae and the cliffs and enclosed the Syracusans with a double wall down to the sea...
Epipolae
76 Sicels ...three hundred cavalry came to them from Egesta, and about a hundred from the Sicels, Naxians, and others; and thus, with the two hundred and fifty from Athens, for...
Sicels
79 14.70636,36.79368,0 Megara ...a fort at Labdalum, upon the edge of the cliffs of Epipolae, looking towards Megara, to serve as a magazine for their baggage and money, whenever they advanced to...
Megara
79 Lacedaemon ...to sail at the proper time. Having settled this, the envoys departed from Lacedaemon. In the meantime arrived the Athenian galley from Sicily sent by the generals...
Lacedaemon
76 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Alcibiades ...much more in earnest when they received this particular information from Alcibiades, and considered that they had heard it from the man who best knew the truth of...
Alcibiades
75 Attica ...may be less able to reinforce their armament. You must fortify Decelea in Attica, the blow of which the Athenians are always most afraid and the only one that...
Attica
76 23.818991099999998,38.051998833333336,0 Syracuse ...will be unable to withstand the Athenian armament that is now there. But if Syracuse falls, all Sicily falls also, and Italy immediately afterwards; and the danger...
Syracuse
78 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Mantinea ...a safe conduct, as he feared them for the part he had taken in the affair of Mantinea. The result was that the Corinthians, Syracusans, and Alcibiades, pressing all...
Mantinea
79 22.393259,37.618138,0 Corinth ...Athenians more openly at home and to send succours to Sicily. The envoys from Corinth having reached Lacedaemon found there Alcibiades with his fellow refugees, who...
Corinth
80 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Corinth ...which threatened Italy quite as much as Syracuse, and having arrived at Corinth made a speech calling on the Corinthians to assist them on the ground of their...
Corinth
74 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Syracuse ...with the proceedings of the Athenians, which threatened Italy quite as much as Syracuse, and having arrived at Corinth made a speech calling on the Corinthians to...
Syracuse
81 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Corinth ...to begin hostilities. In the meantime the Syracusan envoys dispatched to Corinth and Lacedaemon tried as they passed along the coast to persuade the Italiots to...
Corinth
75 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Naxos ...Syracuse pursued her preparations for war, the Athenians were encamped at Naxos, and tried by negotiation to gain as many of the Sicels as possible. Those more...
Naxos
76 25.37699,37.10595,0 Hellas ...recapitulate, in the hope of convincing you. We assert that we are rulers in Hellas in order not to be subjects; liberators in Sicily that we may not be harmed by...
Hellas
79 22.5,37.5,0 Athens ...furnished the Lacedaemonians with a better pretext for hostilities against Athens. After the Athenians had retired from Argos with their fleet, and the...
Athens
77 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Laconia ...often begged them to land, if only for a moment, with their heavy infantry in Laconia, lay waste ever so little of it with them, and depart, they had always refused...
Laconia
80 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Pylos ...the Lacedaemonians in the most overt manner. Up to this time incursions from Pylos, descents on the coast of the rest of Peloponnese, instead of on the Laconian...
Pylos
79 Terinaean Gulf ...over the townspeople, he weighed anchor and coasted along Italy. Opposite the Terinaean Gulf he was caught by the wind which blows violently and steadily from the north in...
Terinaean Gulf
80 Thurii ...and two Ambraciot ships. From Tarentum Gylippus first went on an embassy to Thurii, and claimed anew the rights of citizenship which his father had enjoyed...
Thurii
78 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Peloponnese ...from our subjects, but also any we may be able to get for love or for money in Peloponnese, and great numbers also of archers and slingers, to make head against the...
Peloponnese
81 22.455300563721597,37.34902333912858,0 Syracuse ...others armed at all points just like our own power, particularly Selinus and Syracuse, the chief objects of our expedition. These are full of heavy infantry...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Hellas ...time we shall either become masters, as we very easily may, of the whole of Hellas through the accession of the Sicilian Hellenes, or in any case ruin the...
Hellas
78 22.5,37.5,0 Carthage ...exceedingly ambitious of a command by which he hoped to reduce Sicily and Carthage, and personally to gain in wealth and reputation by means of his successes. For...
Carthage
76 -82.68183,39.95729,0 Lacedaemon ...At present they might possibly come here as separate states for love of Lacedaemon; in the other case one empire would scarcely attack another; for after joining...
Lacedaemon
74 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Macedonian ...by sea to Methone on the Macedonian border some cavalry of their own and the Macedonian exiles that were at Athens, and plundered the country of Perdiccas. Upon this...
Macedonian
79 23.8626788,40.8401571,0 Orneae ...joining them with all their forces, marched out and besieged the men in Orneae for one day; but the garrison escaped by night, the besiegers having bivouacked...
Orneae
74 Egesta ...by the Egestaeans and their supporters, voted first to send envoys to Egesta, to see if there was really the money that they talked of in the treasury and...
Egesta
72 12.839871,37.939199,0 Syracusan ...tyrant of Gela, some time later receiving their land in ransom for some Syracusan prisoners, resettled Camarina, himself acting as its founder. Lastly, it was...
Syracusan
74 Sacon ...after his old country. 5Himera was founded from Zancle by Euclides, Simus, and Sacon, most of those who went to the colony being Chalcidians; though they were...
Sacon
81 0.5370247,42.981286,0 Megara ...out Pamillus and founded Selinus; he having come from their mother country Megara to join them in its foundation. Gela was founded by Antiphemus from Rhodes and...
Megara
77 Megara ...companions were driven out of Thapsus, and founded a place called the Hyblaean Megara; Hyblon, a Sicel king, having given up the place and inviting them thither...
Megara
81 Hyblaean ...his companions were driven out of Thapsus, and founded a place called the Hyblaean Megara; Hyblon, a Sicel king, having given up the place and inviting them...
Hyblaean
76 Naxos ...walls and became populous. Meanwhile Thucles and the Chalcidians set out from Naxos in the fifth year after the foundation of Syracuse, and drove out the Sicels by...
Naxos
80 25.37699,37.10595,0 Soloeis ...most of their stations, and drawing together took up their abode in Motye, Soloeis, and Panormus, near the Elymi, partly because they confided in their alliance...
Soloeis
77 29.25,40.25,0 Leontines ...with us, and on this account it is perfectly reasonable for us to restore the Leontines, and to make them, not subjects like their kinsmen in Euboea, but as powerful...
Leontines
80 Hellas ...their interests. "Now, as we have said, fear makes us hold our empire in Hellas, and fear makes us now come, with the help of our friends, to order safely...
Hellas
75 22.5,37.5,0 Syracuse ...Hermocrates, with some others, accordingly arrived at Camarina from Syracuse, and Euphemus and others from the Athenians; and an assembly of the...
Syracuse
70 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Catana ...the Athenians were wintering at Naxos, they marched with all their people to Catana, and ravaged the land and set fire to the tents and encampment of the...
Catana
79 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Catana ...less able to send reinforcements to their army there. 74The Athenian forces at Catana now at once sailed against Messina, in the expectation of its being betrayed to...
Catana
81 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Corinth ...son of Lysimachus, and Sicanus, son of Execestes. They also sent envoys to Corinth and Lacedaemon to procure a force of allies to join them, and to induce the...
Corinth
77 -73.83234,43.24452,0 Hellas ...the art of war, an army of artisans opposed to the most practised soldiers in Hellas. What had also done great mischief was the number of the generals (there were...
Hellas
80 22.5,37.5,0 Naxos ...in the spring against Syracuse. 72With this intention they sailed off to Naxos and Catana for the winter. Meanwhile the Syracusans burned their dead and then...
Naxos
75 25.37699,37.10595,0 Syracuse ...winter; and it did not seem possible for the moment to carry on the war before Syracuse, until horse should have been sent for from Athens and levied among the allies...
Syracuse
81 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Helorine ...army, and then, finding that they did not offer to engage, crossed the Helorine road and encamped for the night. 67The next day the Athenians and their allies...
Helorine
73 Hybla ...saw them sailing far away from them on the other side of Sicily, and going to Hybla only to fail in their attempts to storm it, they thought less of them than...
Hybla
80 14.74761,36.92655,0 Egesta ...Meanwhile Nicias sailed straight from Hyccara along the coast and went to Egesta and, after transacting his other business and receiving thirty talents...
Egesta
76 12.839871,37.939199,0 Tyrrhene Gulf ...Coasting along Sicily, with the shore on their left, on the side towards the Tyrrhene Gulf they touched at Himera, the only Hellenic city in that part of the island, and...
Tyrrhene Gulf
79 Egesta ...the question of Selinus and ascertain the state of the quarrel between her and Egesta. Coasting along Sicily, with the shore on their left, on the side towards the...
Egesta
81 12.839871,37.939199,0 Syracuse ...the War - Inaction of the Athenian Army - Alcibiades at Sparta - Investment of Syracuse[edit] 62The Athenian generals left in Sicily now divided the armament into two...
Syracuse
81 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Argos ...in the temple of Theseus within the walls. The friends also of Alcibiades at Argos were just at this time suspected of a design to attack the commons; and the...
Argos
79 Sigeum ...Lacedaemonians and the banished Alcmaeonidae, and went with a safe conduct to Sigeum, and to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and from thence to King Darius; from whose...
Sigeum
80 26.18372,39.98975,0 Ceramicus ...festival arrived; and Hippias with his bodyguard was outside the city in the Ceramicus, arranging how the different parts of the procession were to proceed. Harmodius...
Ceramicus
79 27.8785015,36.9358039,0 Aristogiton ...in fear and took everything suspiciously. 54Indeed, the daring action of Aristogiton and Harmodius was undertaken in consequence of a love affair, which I shall...
Aristogiton
75 Camarina ...camp immediately upon their arrival. 52Meanwhile word was brought them from Camarina that if they went there the town would go over to them, and also that the...
Camarina
78 14.44682,36.87229,0 Alcibiades ...to this effect, Lamachus nevertheless gave his support to the opinion of Alcibiades. After this Alcibiades sailed in his own vessel across to Messina with...
Alcibiades
75 Syracuse ...done anything; heralds must be sent to all the cities except Selinus and Syracuse, and efforts be made to make some of the Sicels revolt from the Syracusans, and...
Syracuse
75 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Leontines ...gain and had had had most reason to count upon, from their relationship to the Leontines and constant friendship for Athens. If Nicias was prepared for the news from...
Leontines
81 Ionian Sea ...for purposes of trade; all of which now left Corcyra and struck across the Ionian Sea together. The whole force making land at the Iapygian promontory and Tarentum...
Ionian Sea
77 19.674861075555555,39.03244647555555,0 Corcyra ...them know before they put in to land. 43After this the Athenians weighed from Corcyra, and proceeded to cross to Sicily with an armament now consisting of one...
Corcyra
80 19.92178,39.60733,0 Corcyra ...the meantime the Athenians with all their allies had now arrived at Corcyra. Here the generals began by again reviewing the armament, and made arrangements...
Corcyra
70 19.92178,39.60733,0 Trinacria ...the river Sicanus in Iberia. It was from them that the island, before called Trinacria, took its name of Sicania, and to the present day they inhabit the west of...
Trinacria
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Italy ...armament that is now there. But if Syracuse falls, all Sicily falls also, and Italy immediately afterwards; and the danger which I just now spoke of from that...
Italy
80 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...galleys in addition to those which we had already, timber being plentiful in Italy; and with this fleet blockading Peloponnese from the sea and assailing it with...
Italy
79 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...by each squadron having its own commander. Next they sent on three ships to Italy and Sicily to find out which of the cities would receive them, with...
Italy
78 12.5,42.5,0 Sicily ...aid them against the power that hinders this, and that has thus far maintained Sicily independent. We, as against them, invite you to a much more real safety, when...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...party, but your own kindred, and by so doing to defend the common interests of Sicily and save your friends the Athenians from doing wrong. "In conclusion, we...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...some other, but free Dorians from independent Peloponnese, dwelling in Sicily. Or, are we waiting until we be taken in detail, one city after another...
Sicily
73 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...horse should have been sent for from Athens and levied among the allies in Sicily--to do away with their utter inferiority in cavalry--and money should have been...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...ship and his fellow accused, accordingly sailed off with the Salaminia from Sicily, as though to return to Athens, and went with her as far as Thurii, and there...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...squadron having its own commander. Next they sent on three ships to Italy and Sicily to find out which of the cities would receive them, with instructions to meet...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...carried on war from our frontier; much less can they hope to succeed with all Sicily hostile to them, as all Sicily will be, and with only a camp pitched from the...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...Tarentum and the Iapygian promontory, and show them that before fighting for Sicily they must first fight for their passage across the Ionian Sea, we should strike...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to help the Egestaeans and to restore Leontini, but really to conquer Sicily, and above all our city, which once gained, the rest, they think, will easily...
Sicily
72 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to ourselves for holding back, or what excuse can we offer to our allies in Sicily for not helping them? They are our confederates, and we are bound to assist...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...on the ground that you would be going to attack a great power. The cities in Sicily are peopled by motley rabbles, and easily change their institutions and adopt...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...to see the same hands overthrow their own in the same way. The Hellenes in Sicily would fear us most if we never went there at all, and next to this, if after...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...deliberation; and I urge you to send without hesitation the expeditions to Sicily and Attica; by the presence of a small part of your forces you will save...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Italy ...present day there are still Sicels in Italy; and the country got its name of Italy from Italus, a king of the Sicels, so called. These went with a great host to...
Italy
79 12.5,42.5,0 Panormus ...stations, and drawing together took up their abode in Motye, Soloeis, and Panormus, near the Elymi, partly because they confided in their alliance, and also...
Panormus
76 13.3614059,38.11564,0 Athens ...you may be sure, in talk than in any other way. 23"Indeed, even if we leave Athens with a force not only equal to that of the enemy except in the number of heavy...
Athens
78 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Athens ...which during four months in winter it is not even easy for a messenger get to Athens. 22"I think, therefore, that we ought to take great numbers of heavy infantry...
Athens
80 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Syracuse ...in the hands of private persons, partly in the temples at Selinus, and at Syracuse first-fruits from some of the barbarians as well. But their chief advantage...
Syracuse
76 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Mantinea ...the Lacedaemonians to stake their all upon the issue of a single day at Mantinea; and although victorious in the battle, they have never since fully recovered...
Mantinea
74 22.393259,37.618138,0 Peloponnese ...public affairs better than I do. Having united the most powerful states of Peloponnese, without great danger or expense to you, I compelled the Lacedaemonians to...
Peloponnese
77 22.455300563721597,37.34902333912858,0 Egesta ...other allies in the island. But they were especially incited by envoys from Egesta, who had come to Athens and invoked their aid more urgently than ever. The...
Egesta
78 12.839871,37.939199,0 Cuma ...own institutions to the colony. Zancle was originally founded by pirates from Cuma, the Chalcidian town in the country of the Opicans: afterwards, however, large...
Cuma
80 14.0530815,40.8476994,0 Megara ...their founder. 4About the same time Lamis arrived in Sicily with a colony from Megara, and after founding a place called Trotilus beyond the river Pantacyas, and...
Megara
81 Syracuse ...the Chalcidians set out from Naxos in the fifth year after the foundation of Syracuse, and drove out the Sicels by arms and founded Leontini and afterwards Catana...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Syracuse ...upon which the deputies for the games sacrifice before sailing from Sicily. Syracuse was founded the year afterwards by Archias, one of the Heraclids from Corinth...
Syracuse
78 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Sicania ...south and west of the island, which thus came to be called Sicily instead of Sicania, and after they crossed over continued to enjoy the richest parts of the...
Sicania
79 Italus ...there are still Sicels in Italy; and the country got its name of Italy from Italus, a king of the Sicels, so called. These went with a great host to Sicily...
Italus
78 Sicania ...It was from them that the island, before called Trinacria, took its name of Sicania, and to the present day they inhabit the west of Sicily. On the fall of Ilium...
Sicania
78 Euboea ...to restore the Leontines, and to make them, not subjects like their kinsmen in Euboea, but as powerful as possible, to help us by annoying the Syracusans from their...
Euboea
81 23.87,38.53,0 Camarina ...offering at Syracuse the aid which you would have asked for at Camarina, if to Camarina the Athenians had first come, to encourage us to resist the invader. Neither...
Camarina
81 14.44682,36.87229,0 Syracuse ...now doing, would rather come to us of your own accord, and be now offering at Syracuse the aid which you would have asked for at Camarina, if to Camarina the...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Syracusan ...and that the object of the Athenian is not so much to punish the enmity of the Syracusan as to use me as a blind to secure the friendship of the Camarinaean. As for him...
Syracusan
81 Hellas ...are a colony. No; but the same policy which has proved so successful in Hellas is now being tried in Sicily. After being chosen as the leaders of the Ionians...
Hellas
74 22.5,37.5,0 Leontines ...and the intention which we all suspect, in my opinion less to restore the Leontines to their homes than to oust us from ours; as it is out of all reason that they...
Leontines
76 Naxos ...a landing Place. Meanwhile, as they knew that the Athenians were wintering at Naxos, they marched with all their people to Catana, and ravaged the land and set...
Naxos
80 25.37699,37.10595,0 Epipolae ...to take in the statue of Apollo Temenites, all along the side looking towards Epipolae, to make the task of circumvallation longer and more difficult, in case of...
Epipolae
80 Athens ...their camp, and retired into winter quarters; meanwhile they sent a galley to Athens for money and cavalry to join them in the spring. 75During the winter the...
Athens
80 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Naxos ...to the weather and without provisions, and met with no success, went back to Naxos, where they made places for their ships to lie in, erected a palisade round...
Naxos
79 25.37699,37.10595,0 Messina ...be outlawed, gave information of the plot to the friends of the Syracusans in Messina, who had at once put to death its authors, and now rose in arms against the...
Messina
80 15.55256,38.19394,0 Syracusan ...at the continued resistance of the enemy. At last the Argives drove in the Syracusan left, and after them the Athenians routed the troops opposed to them, and the...
Syracusan
77 Syracuse ...joined them, put them on board their ships and boats, and sailed by night to Syracuse. Thus, when morning broke the Athenians were landing opposite the Olympieum...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Leontines ...to settle with the Syracusans in a foreign country rather than to resettle the Leontines in their own. 64Aware of this, the Athenian generals determined to draw them...
Leontines
81 Syracuse ...63The winter following, the Athenians at once began to prepare for moving on Syracuse, and the Syracusans on their side for marching against them. From the moment...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Gela ...with half their own force to the hostile town of Hybla in the territory of Gela, but did not succeed in taking it. Summer was now over. 63The winter following...
Gela
77 14.24038,37.07381,0 Thurii ...and departed. Alcibiades, now an outlaw, crossed in a boat not long after from Thurii to Peloponnese; and the Athenians passed sentence of death by default upon him...
Thurii
81 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Athens ...accordingly sailed off with the Salaminia from Sicily, as though to return to Athens, and went with her as far as Thurii, and there they left the ship and...
Athens
80 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Lampsacus ...Alcmaeonidae, and went with a safe conduct to Sigeum, and to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and from thence to King Darius; from whose court he set out twenty years...
Lampsacus
76 26.68556,40.34417,0 Aeantides ...and the banished Alcmaeonidae, and went with a safe conduct to Sigeum, and to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and from thence to King Darius; from whose court he set out...
Aeantides
80 Athens ...this inscription: Archedice lies buried in this earth, Hippias her sire, and Athens gave her birth; Unto her bosom pride was never known, Though daughter, wife...
Athens
80 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Aristogiton ...weapons for a procession. 59In this way offended love first led Harmodius and Aristogiton to conspire, and the alarm of the moment to commit the rash action recounted...
Aristogiton
80 Catana ...light infantry through the coming up of the Syracusan horse, so got back to Catana. 53There they found the Salaminia come from Athens for Alcibiades, with orders...
Catana
78 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Rhegium ...with the Athenians and invited them to fetch the rest of their forces from Rhegium. After this the Athenians sailed to Rhegium, and put off, this time with all...
Rhegium
77 15.86494,38.39426,0 Syracuse ...river Terias. Here they bivouacked, and the next day sailed in single file to Syracuse with all their ships except ten which they sent on in front to sail into the...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Megara ...the Athenians, without waiting to see which were the strongest. They must make Megara their naval station as a place to retreat to and a base from which to attack...
Megara
81 Leontines ...(unless they should have some sudden and unexpected opportunity of serving the Leontines, or of bringing over some of the other cities), and not to endanger the state...
Leontines
81 Egesta ...the rest--when the news got abroad that there was not the money supposed at Egesta, were much blamed by the soldiers. Meanwhile the generals consulted upon what...
Egesta
78 12.839871,37.939199,0 Athens ...and made them talk loudly of the riches they had seen when they got back to Athens. The dupes in question--who had in their turn persuaded the rest--when the news...
Athens
78 -82.10126,39.32924,0 Egesta ...crews, and collected all the cups of gold and silver that they could find in Egesta itself or could borrow in the neighbouring Phoenician and Hellenic towns, and...
Egesta
79 12.839871,37.939199,0 Egesta ...and constant friendship for Athens. If Nicias was prepared for the news from Egesta, his two colleagues were taken completely by surprise. The Egestaeans had had...
Egesta
79 12.839871,37.939199,0 Egesta ...at any moment. 46Meanwhile the three ships that had been sent on came from Egesta to the Athenians at Rhegium, with the news that so far from there being the...
Egesta
77 12.839871,37.939199,0 Peripoli ...might be, were sent round to the Sicels, garrisons put into the posts of the Peripoli in the country, horses and arms reviewed in the city to see that nothing was...
Peripoli
79 Egesta ...of Sicily, and meanwhile waited for the ships sent on to come back from Egesta, in order to know whether there was really there the money mentioned by the...
Egesta
74 12.839871,37.939199,0 Rhegium ...liberty to anchor, and Tarentum and Locri not even that, until they arrived at Rhegium, the extreme point of Italy. Here at length they reunited, and not gaining...
Rhegium
81 15.86494,38.39426,0 Tarentum ...Sea together. The whole force making land at the Iapygian promontory and Tarentum, with more or less good fortune, coasted along the shores of Italy, the cities...
Tarentum
75 -79.75977,40.60146,0 Peloponnese ...as is reported, I consider Sicily better able to go through with the war than Peloponnese, as being at all points better prepared, and our city by itself far more than a...
Peloponnese
80 22.455300563721597,37.34902333912858,0 Tarentum ...were wearied with rowing, or if we did not choose to do so, we could retire to Tarentum; while they, having crossed with few provisions just to give battle, would be...
Tarentum
81 -79.75977,40.60146,0 Tarentum ...of our actual navy with two months' provisions, and meet the Athenians at Tarentum and the Iapygian promontory, and show them that before fighting for Sicily they...
Tarentum
76 -79.75977,40.60146,0 Hellas ...to come here and help us as soon as possible, and to keep alive the war in Hellas. But the true thing of all others, in my opinion, to do at the present moment...
Hellas
77 22.5,37.5,0 Piraeus ...themselves, and such of their allies as happened to be with them, went down to Piraeus upon a day appointed at daybreak, and began to man the ships for putting out to...
Piraeus
81 23.63708,37.94745,0 Heraclides ...under whose command they had happened; and these were deposed and others, Heraclides, Eucles, and Tellias, elected in their stead. 104Meanwhile the Lacedaemonian...
Heraclides
76 Labdalum ...itself; and no one coming out to meet them, reascended and built a fort at Labdalum, upon the edge of the cliffs of Epipolae, looking towards Megara, to serve as a...
Labdalum
77 Epipolae ...from Catana, opposite a place called Leon, not much more than half a mile from Epipolae, where they disembarked their army, bringing the fleet to anchor at Thapsus, a...
Epipolae
81 Catana ...a review, having already made land unobserved with all the armament from Catana, opposite a place called Leon, not much more than half a mile from Epipolae...
Catana
75 -70.18694,-17.94167,0 Laurium ...Athenians will at once be deprived of their revenues from the silver mines at Laurium, of their present gains from their land and from the law courts, and above all...
Laurium
80 -88.44317,47.23743,0 Pylos ...good offices towards you, in particular upon the occasion of the disaster at Pylos. But although I maintained this friendly attitude, you yet chose to negotiate...
Pylos
79 Lacedaemon ...vessel from Thurii, first to Cyllene in Elis, and afterwards from thence to Lacedaemon; upon the Lacedaemonians' own invitation, after first obtaining a safe conduct...
Lacedaemon
78 22.46082645177671,37.07624042080912,0 Elis ...had at once crossed over in a trading vessel from Thurii, first to Cyllene in Elis, and afterwards from thence to Lacedaemon; upon the Lacedaemonians' own...
Elis
80 21.25,37.75,0 Cyllene ...who had at once crossed over in a trading vessel from Thurii, first to Cyllene in Elis, and afterwards from thence to Lacedaemon; upon the Lacedaemonians' own...
Cyllene
73 22.3957984,37.9391027,0 Thurii ...his fellow refugees, who had at once crossed over in a trading vessel from Thurii, first to Cyllene in Elis, and afterwards from thence to Lacedaemon; upon the...
Thurii
77 16.4927745,39.71705745,0 Carthage ...and stayed there the rest of the winter. They also sent a galley to Carthage, with proffers of friendship, on the chance of obtaining assistance, and...
Carthage
70 -82.68183,39.95729,0 Syracuse ...many of the Sicels as possible. Those more in the low lands, and subjects of Syracuse, mostly held aloof; but the peoples of the interior who had never been...
Syracuse
79 -76.14742,43.04812,0 Syracuse ...which answer the ambassadors of either party departed. In the meantime, while Syracuse pursued her preparations for war, the Athenians were encamped at Naxos, and...
Syracuse
80 -76.14742,43.04812,0 the states ...they occupy convenient positions round Peloponnese. In our settlement of the states here in Sicily, we should therefore; naturally be guided by our interest, and...
the states
75 6.5,46.5,0 Hellas ...but by means of their strength to cripple our enemies. Why doubt this? In Hellas we treat our allies as we find them useful. The Chians and Methymnians govern...
Hellas
76 22.5,37.5,0 Prasiae ...of Phytodorus, Laespodius, and Demaratus, they landed at Epidaurus Limera, Prasiae, and other places, and plundered the country; and thus furnished the...
Prasiae
77 Italy ...failing to bring over the townspeople, he weighed anchor and coasted along Italy. Opposite the Terinaean Gulf he was caught by the wind which blows violently...
Italy
77 12.5,42.5,0 Italy ...Italiots to interfere with the proceedings of the Athenians, which threatened Italy quite as much as Syracuse, and having arrived at Corinth made a speech calling...
Italy
80 12.5,42.5,0 Sicily ...the Athenians, except in so far as they might be afraid of their subjugating Sicily, they had always been at enmity with their neighbour Syracuse. From the very...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...and ascertain the state of the quarrel between her and Egesta. Coasting along Sicily, with the shore on their left, on the side towards the Tyrrhene Gulf they...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...at Sparta - Investment of Syracuse[edit] 62The Athenian generals left in Sicily now divided the armament into two parts, and, each taking one by lot, sailed...
Sicily
75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...decided to bring him to trial and execute him, and the Salaminia was sent to Sicily for him and the others named in the information, with instructions to order him...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...now began to consider what would be the best action to take in the affairs of Sicily, and meanwhile waited for the ships sent on to come back from Egesta, in order...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...this the Athenians weighed from Corcyra, and proceeded to cross to Sicily with an armament now consisting of one hundred and thirty-four galleys in all...
Sicily
69 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...much less can they hope to succeed with all Sicily hostile to them, as all Sicily will be, and with only a camp pitched from the ships, and composed of tents and...
Sicily
77 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...Accordingly it was decreed that he should sail. 30After this the departure for Sicily took place, it being now about midsummer. Most of the allies, with the corn...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...was, besides, exceedingly ambitious of a command by which he hoped to reduce Sicily and Carthage, and personally to gain in wealth and reputation by means of his...
Sicily
79 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...upon gaining any advantage in the war, and to order all other matters in Sicily as they should deem best for the interests of Athens. Five days after this a...
Sicily
75 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...was abundance in the temples and the treasury, voted to send sixty ships to Sicily, under the command of Alcibiades, son of Clinias, Nicias, son of Niceratus, and...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...for their depopulation of Leontini, to ruin the allies still left to Athens in Sicily, and to get the whole power of the island into their hands, there would be a...
Sicily
81 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...took its name of Sicania, and to the present day they inhabit the west of Sicily. On the fall of Ilium, some of the Trojans escaped from the Achaeans, came in...
Sicily
76 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...withstand the Athenian armament that is now there. But if Syracuse falls, all Sicily falls also, and Italy immediately afterwards; and the danger which I just now...
Sicily
80 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0 Sicily ...and upon which superior knowledge perhaps permits me to speak. We sailed to Sicily first to conquer, if possible, the Siceliots, and after them the Italiots also...
Sicily
78 14.08648464579389,37.53667611952188,0