the Megarian decree
Pericles
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Acharnians Aristophanes 1 refuted 1 citation
The decree is explicitly cited and criticized as the excessive cause of the war.
Then, in his wrath, Pericles the Olympian lightened and thundered and threw all Hellas into turmoil, and made laws written like drinking-songs, that the Megarians must not abide on land, nor in the market, nor on the sea, nor in the sky.
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Peace Aristophanes 1 refuted 1 citation
The passage explicitly names the decree and attributes it to Pericles while blaming it for the war.
Then Pericles, afraid he might share his misfortune, dreading your natures and your snappish temper, before suffering some dreadful thing himself, set the city ablaze, throwing in a tiny spark of the Megarian decree, and blew up so great a war that all the Greeks wept from the smoke, both those over there and those here.
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