Corinthian exiles
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Corinthians who were exiled on your account · exiles · these men
in the texts
Against Leptines
Corinthians who supported Athens against Sparta and suffered exile for it.
Such, gentlemen of the jury, is the decree passed by you in favor of the Corinthians who were exiled on your account.
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 …
And afterwards, when peace, the peace of Antalcidas, was concluded with the Lacedaemonians, the latter requited their acts with exile.
Hellenica
Exiled Corinthians allied with the Lacedaemonians, fighting around Corinth, conducting Isthmian ceremonies, and operating from Lechaeum.
and finding the Lacedaemonians stationed on the right of their own line, the Sicyonians next to them, and the Corinthian exiles, about one hundred and fifty in number, by the eastern wall, the enemy formed in line against them with the mercenaries under Iphicrates close to the eastern wall, and next to them the Argives;
And the Corinthian exiles, no longer proceeding by land from Sicyon past Corinth, on account of the disaster to the regiment, but sailing along the coast to Lechaeum and sallying forth from there, caused annoyance to the people in the city even as they suffered annoyance themselves.
Meanwhile the Corinthian exiles, being victorious over the troops opposed to them, pushed their way through in the inland direction and got near the wall which surrounded the city.