Allies of Athens
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allies · Allies · allied fleet · allies of Athens · friends · our allies · representatives of the allies · states of the Alliance · the allied forces · the best of them
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1 expressionAthens' Allies1 mention
On the Peace with Sparta (Greek)
She forbids us to place the least trust in Sparta, although all our allies are joining us in making peace;
in the texts
On the Embassy
The allied states or representatives associated with Athens and the oath-taking process.
But please let the herald call the generals and the representatives of the allies, and do you hear their testimony.
Now on the adjournment of that session of the assembly, Philip’s ambassadors proceeded to administer the oaths to your allies in your army-building.
in that assembly Critobulus of Lampsacus came forward and said that Cersobleptes had sent him, and he demanded that he should be allowed to give his oath to the ambassadors of Philip, and that Cersobleptes be enrolled among your allies.
On the Peace with Sparta
The wider network of states allied with Athens, invoked variously as needing to support recovery of overseas possessions, providing ships, or joining the current peace.
She forbids us to place the least trust in Sparta, although all our allies are joining us in making peace;
A war for their recovery needs the support of the king of Persia and our allies, and they refuse that support.
Persuasion we used in arranging that Hellenotamiae should be appointed at Athens to control the joint funds, that the allied fleet should assemble in our own harbor, and that such states as possessed no ships should be supplied with them by us:
Against Leptines
States or peoples allied with Athens and protected or freed by benefactors.
Whereas Conon, it runs, freed the allies of Athens.
but when the great battle against the Lacedaemonians was fought near Corinth, and when the party in that city determined after the battle not to admit our soldiers within their walls, but to send heralds to greet the Lacedaemonians, these men, though they saw that Athens had lost the day and that our enemies were holding the pass, refused to betray us or to take steps for their own individual safe …
Against Timocrates
Allied peoples or states whose revenues and dedications are part of Athenian public life.
The Allies crowned the People for valor and righteousness, or The Allies dedicated to the Goddess of Athens a prize of victory;
If they were asked whether, in their opinion, the greater injury is done to the commonwealth by tillers of the soil, who live frugally, but, because of the cost of maintaining their children, or of household expenses, or of other public burdens, are behindhand with their taxes, or by people who plunder and squander the money of willing taxpayers and the revenue that comes from our allies, I am sur …
On Organization
Communities allied with Athens whose loyalty, contributions, and protection are part of the civic program.
Have we not squandered our private estates, our public funds, and the contributions of our allies?
In the first place, that your allies may be kept loyal, not by maintaining garrisons among them, but by making their interests identical with yours;
For you have many exploits to your credit from the earliest times, and it would be disgraceful to abandon the friends you have, while it is impossible to trust your enemies and allow them to grow powerful.
Antidosis
Subject allies whose mistreatment by Athenian sycophants caused alienation and revolt.
Have they not by ill-treating our allies, by lodging false complaints against them, by stripping the best of them of their possessions—have they not so disaffected them that they have revolted against us and craved the friendship and alliance of the Lacedaemonians?