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    Sicilian expedition

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    the Sicilian expedition · the expedition to Sicily · Sicily · expedition · the campaign · the voyage · we chose to send an armament to Sicily

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    The Sicilian Expedition2 mentions

    On the Peace with Sparta (Greek) · Concerning the Team of Horses (Greek)

    instead of staying at home as the allies of Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily.
    on the peace with sparta

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    On the Peace with SpartaClassical · Greek

    Athens' costly military expedition to Sicily, chosen over an offered alliance with Syracuse, resulting in massive losses of ships, money, and lives.

    instead of staying at home as the allies of Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily.
    on the peace with sparta

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Athenian military campaign against Sicily, led reluctantly by Nicias and ending in disaster.

    And Nicias, the son of Niceratus, because he was trusted by the citizens, though he knew what the expedition to Sicily would be, both from the god and from his own reasoning, was nevertheless compelled to go on the campaign, sick as he was, on account of this trust.
    oration 73

    Concerning the Team of HorsesClassical · Greek

    The Athenian military campaign against Sicily that Alcibiades the elder was elected to command before being recalled to face trial.

    They did not cease until they had recalled my father from the expedition and had put to death some of his friends and had banished others from the city.
    ch. 1
    The city was greatly excited by reason of the gravity of the charges, and a meeting of the Assembly was hastily called at which my father so clearly proved that the accusers were lying that the people would have been glad to punish them, and furthermore elected him general for the Sicilian expedition.
    ch. 1

    On the PeaceClassical · Greek

    The Athenian campaign toward Sicily, criticized as reckless and disastrous.

    in the Decelean War they lost ten thousand heavy armed troops of their own and of their allies, and in Sicily forty thousand men and two hundred and forty ships, and, finally, in the Hellespont two hundred ships.
    on the peace
    For they reached such a degree of neglect of their own possessions and of covetousness of the possessions of other states that when the Lacedaemonians had invaded our territory and the fortifications at Decelea had already been built, they manned triremes to send to Sicily and were not ashamed to permit their own country to be cut off and plundered by the enemy while dispatching an expedition agai …
    on the peace
    Nay, they arrived at such a pitch of folly that at a time when they were not masters of their own suburbs they expected to extend their power over Italy and Sicily and Carthage.
    on the peace

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    The Athenian military campaign voted by the assembly to conquer Sicily, prompted by the Segestan appeal, debated at length by Nicias and Alcibiades.

    THE same winter the Athenians wished to sail again to Sicily, with a larger armament than that under Laches and Eurymedon, and bring it into subjection to them, if they could;
    book 6
    they voted to send sixty ships, with Alcibiades son of Clinias, Nicias son of Niceratus, and Lamachus son of Xenophanes, as commanders, with full powers, to assist the Segestans against the Selinuntines, and to join in re-founding Leontini, should they gain any advantage in the war, and to carry out all other measures in Sicily, as they should deem best for the Athenians.
    book 6
    The following summer, as soon as the spring commenced, the ambassadors of the Athenians came from Sicily, and the Segestans with them, bringing sixty talents of uncoined silver, as a month's pay for sixty ships which they were to beg them to send.
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