Thucydidis De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo: ex optimis editionibus expressi

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Excudebat S. Collingwood, 1831 - Greece - 630 pages
 

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Page xii - ... war, the Athenians sustained an important defeat in Boeotia. Owing to some mistake, Demosthenes commenced his operations on the side of Phokis before the expedition from Attica was ready to cooperate. The Thebans, having intelligence of what was going on, effectually secured the towns towards Phokis ; and afterwards, when a large Athenian army from Attica entered Boeotia and fortified the temple of Apollo at Delion, the Boeotians gave them battle and completely defeated them and soon after reduced...
Page xiii - Négociations went on throughout the winter, and early in the following spring a peace was concluded, on the basis of a general restoration of all places taken in the war, the Athenians only keeping Nisaea, as a sort of compensation for Platsea, which the Thebans positively refused to give back.

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