Argives

and considering it hard usage, and not thinking that they deserved to be so treated by the Lacedaemonians, immediately on their return they broke off the alliance which they had made with them against the Mede, and became allies of the Argives, their enemies.

Chrysis immediately, the same night, fled to Phlius, in her fear of the Argives;

It happened, too, that their thirty years' truce with the Argives was on the point of expiring, and the Argives would not renew it, unless the Cynurian territory were restored to them;

The Athenians who were sent were Dorotheus, Philocydes, Theogenes, Euryptolemus, and Mantitheus, and with them two Argives, Cleostratus and Pyrrolochus;

Thereupon the Lacedaemonians took the field with their whole force, and likewise the rest of the Peloponnesians excepting the Argives, at the command of Pausanias, the other king of the Lacedaemonians.

But the force of the enemy which was gathered together included, of the Athenians about six thousand hoplites, of the Argives, according to all accounts, about seven thousand, of the Boeotians (since the Orchomenians were not present) only about five thousand, of the Corinthians about three thousand, and, further, from the whole of Euboea not less than three thousand.

The Argives, who before had worn their hair long by fixed custom, shaved their heads ever after and made a law, with a curse added to it, that no Argive grow his hair, and no Argive woman wear gold, until they recovered Thyreae;

The Argives came out to save their territory from being cut off, then after debate the two armies agreed that three hundred of each side should fight, and whichever party won would possess the land.

at last, only three out of the six hundred were left, Alcenor and Chromios of the Argives, Othryades of the Lacedaemonians:

If, then, among the Argives I dared to contradict Homer, and to show his poetry false in the greatest matters, perhaps they would reasonably be vexed at me and cast me out of the city, if I appeared to be doing away with and destroying the opinion they hold;

For I suppose the Argives themselves would not wish the affairs of Thyestes and Atreus and the sons of Pelops to have been otherwise, but would be greatly vexed if anyone should refute the tales of the tragedians, saying that Thyestes did not commit adultery with the wife of Atreus, nor did Atreus slay his brother's children nor, having cut them up, feast Thyestes, nor was Orestes the slayer of hi …

For formerly the common dignity was made up of many, and many exalted Greece — you, the Athenians, the Lacedaemonians, the Thebans, for some time the Corinthians, of old the Argives.

everything has happened to Odysseus as I foretold when the Argives set out for Troy, and he with them.

He has many brothers and kinsmen in Argos, and they have great power among the Argives.

There I saw Helen, for whose sake so many, both Argives and Trojans, were in heaven's wisdom doomed to suffer.

Thus Pausanias says of the Argives to the Corinthians, “The Argives from their love of equality have reduced their kingly power very low;

and this happens, either when every individual is reduced to slavery, as the Mycenaeans, who were sold by the Argives;

nay, Argos and Thebes joined forces with him in the conquest of Egypt in order that he might be possessed of the greatest possible power to plot against the Hellenes, while we and the Spartans, although allied together, feel more hostile to each other than to those with whom we are each openly at war.

For the Lacedaemonians were not satisfied with wronging these cities and men of this character, but treated in the same way those who had set out with them from the same country, joined with them in the same expedition, and shared with them the same perils —I mean the Argives and the Messenians.

In this state of mind, they undertook to wage war and did not cease, albeit they were involved in many misadventures and dangers, before they had reduced them all to subjection, except the city of the Argives.

Though the blessings we were enjoying were so great, we again brought war against the Lacedaemonians, persuaded by the Argives;

Later, the same Argives who are here today to persuade us to continue the war, induced us to arouse Sparta’s anger by making a naval descent upon Laconia while at peace with her, an act which was responsible for endless disasters;

yet in virtue of a private peace which she has negotiated, she has withdrawn her own territory from the field of hostilities.

Today, then, it remains for us to choose war instead of peace once again, the Argive instead of the Boeotian alliance, the present masters of Corinth instead of Sparta.

whereas those who have been deceived as to the danger, if they learn or suspect the true state of affairs, take to flight, as the Argives did when they encountered the Lacedaemonians and thought they were Sicyonians.

Or would Pheidias and Polycleitus, if they had been greatly proud of the gold and the ivory—of which the one made the Zeus for the Eleans, the other the Hera for the Argives—have been laughing-stocks, adorning themselves with another's wealth and forsaking their art, through which the gold itself was shown sweeter and more precious?

Therefore Juno has one shape among the Argives, another among the people of Lanuvium.

I have repeatedly heard it said in this Assembly that when misfortune befell our democracy, there were some people who urged that it should be restored, and of them I will here mention the Argives only, and that briefly.

Then would it not be discreditable, men of Athens, if when the commons of Argos feared not the authority of the Lacedaemonians in the day of their might, you, who are Athenians, should fear one who is at once a barbarian and a woman?

In the second place, many so-called protectors are springing up everywhere, and all states are rivals for the leadership, but unfortunately some hold aloof, in mutual jealousy and distrust, and so each state has isolated itself—Argives, Thebans, Lacedaemonians, Corinthians, Arcadians, ourselves.

O yes, by Zeus, all will agree that you are faring better than these, but worse, they declare, than the Thessalians, Argives and Arcadians, or certain others, who had the luck to be in alliance with Philip.

The Argives have followed their example.

For if the Argives and Messenians and Megalopolitans, and other Peloponnesians who side with them, quarrel with us because of our embassy to Sparta and because they think that we have some interest in Lacedaemonian policy;

For if we should hereafter come to blows with Philip, about Amphipolis or in any private quarrel not shared by the Thessalians or the Argives or the Thebans, I do not believe for a moment that any of the latter would be dragged into the war, least of all— hear me before you shout me down—least of all the Thebans.

On the other hand, he learns that the ancestors of these Thebans and Argives either fought for the barbarians or did not fight against them.

But he is not waiting to help the Messenians and Argives against the Lacedaemonians:

And it was natural that he should form this opinion of you and the contrary opinion of the Argives and Thebans, because he not merely looks to the present, but also draws a lesson from the past.

They ordered all the Peloponnesians with the exception of the Argives to send two-thirds of their armies from their several cities, and they sent word to all the rest of the Boeotians and the Locrians and Phocians and Malians and Oetaeans and Aenians to take the field with their entire forces.

he reports that the Argives are proclaiming a sacrifice for the third day from now, and that all maidens are to go to Hera’s temple.

From fear of the citizens’ reproach she stayed behind.

We Argives swear we never will against this land lead on our mail-clad troops to war, and, if others come, we will repel them.

O citizens of Argos!

the elders, therefore, of the Argives besought Achilles and offered him great treasure, whereon he refused to bring deliverance to them himself, but put his own armor on Patroklos and sent him into the fight with many people after him.

So then, concerning the team of horses —that my father was in possession of them, not by having taken them away from Teisias, but by having purchased them from the Argive state—you have heard both the Argive ambassadors and the others conversant with the facts testify.

Did they not rob the Eleans of part of their territory, did they not lay waste the land of the Corinthians, did they not disperse the Mantineans from their homes, did they not reduce the Phliasians by siege, and did they not invade the country of the Argives, never ceasing from their depredations upon the rest of the world and so bringing upon themselves the disaster at Leuctra?