Corinthians

The Corinthians did not listen to any of these proposals;

while of the Corinthians themselves there were getting ready thirty ships, and three thousand heavy-armed.

Now the Corinthians, when news was brought from Epidamnus of its being besieged, immediately began to prepare an army;

When they arrived, the ephors called an assembly, at which the Corinthians and Thebans in particular, though many other Greeks agreed with them, opposed making a treaty with the Athenians and favoured destroying their city.

Thereupon many charges began to be urged against the Athenians, not only touching the outrages they had already committed and what they had voted to do if they were victorious in the battle, —namely, to cut off the right hand of every man taken alive,—but also the fact that after capturing two triremes, one a Corinthian and the other an Andrian, they had thrown the crews overboard to a man.

And all the allies likewise followed with him, excepting the Boeotians and the Corinthians;

This is what the Corinthians and Lesbians say, and there is a little bronze memorial of Arion on Taenarus, the figure of a man riding upon a dolphin.

The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin.

The rest then keeping silence, Socles, a Corinthian, said,

they have so very much emulated the Corinthians, or rather surpassed both them and all the rest in ill-starredness, that whereas the Corinthians watch outside the city in a ravine, in a place able to hold a multitude but otherwise filthy and where no one would even bury any of the free, the Athenians watch this fine spectacle in their theatre under the very acropolis, where they place Dionysus on the orchestra;

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.

And was anyone persuaded of this against the Corinthians, whose ancestors of all the Greeks most practised justice?

In the eighth book of the same writer, we are told that the Corinthians imposed a duty upon all goods, which, to avoid the dangerous passage of Cape Males, were transported by land from sea to sea.

” When Cimon in carrying supplies to the Lacedaemonians, had marched with his troops through some part of the Corinthian district, the Corinthians expostulated upon his conduct as a violation of their territory, because he had done it without asking their leave, at the same time observing, that no one knocks at another man’s door, or presumes to enter the house without obtaining the master’s leave.

The same writer, speaking of the second colony sent by the Corinthians to Epidamnus, says, “they gave public notice that such as were willing to go should enjoy equal privileges with those that staid at home.

" And again, writing to the Corinthians:

Yes, and in the epistle to the Corinthians the apostle Clement too, himself sketching for us a kind of pattern of the gnostic, says:

And the ruling part of knowledge the apostle plainly shows to those able to look through, writing thus to those Greekish Corinthians:

In short, the heresies, having lit upon two men set forth by the apostle — the inner, that is, the soul, and the outer, that is, the flesh — have adjudged salvation indeed to the soul, that is, the inner man, but destruction to the flesh, that is, the outer;

The transmutation of these he renders to the Corinthians, saying, "We shall all indeed rise again, but we shall not all be transmuted, in an atom, in a momentary motion of the eye, at the last trumpet" — but those alone, namely, who shall be found in the flesh.

The apostle, I think, having disposed to the Corinthians with every distinction of ecclesiastical discipline, had concluded the sum both of his Gospel and of their faith in the commendation of the Lord's death and resurrection, that he might draw from there the rule of our hope too, whence it might stand firm.

nay, and still further you add, "Having therefore this promise, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting chastity in the fear of God.

For in truth they suspect that the Apostle Paul, in the second to the Corinthians, gave pardon to that same fornicator whom in the first he had pronounced should be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh — the impious heir of his father's marriage-bed — as though he had even afterward turned his pen, writing:

Come now, if the first epistle had not grieved so many persons, if he had rebuked no one, terrified no one — if he had cut off the incestuous man alone, if he had cast no one into fear in his cause, had confounded no puffed-up man — would you not the better suspect, and the more faithfully argue, that some other person, far different, was then among the Corinthians in the same cause, who, being re …

Perfectly well, say some, provided that we protect Corinth and are allied with Argos.

I should like to be informed of the value of Corinth to us, if Boeotia leaves our ranks and makes peace with Sparta.

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.

I myself, too, when I was a young man, saw certain Corinthians in the Peloponnese.

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.

No one, for example, would reproach Epidaurians or Corinthians or Phliasians if they thought of nothing else than to escape destruction and save their own lives;

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?

As for you, sons of Aletes, often the Seasons have sent you victorious splendor for your consummate excellence when you won in sacred contests, and often into the hearts of men the Seasons rich in flowers have cast ancient inventiveness.

1 To Alexander of Macedon, when as conqueror of the East he was lifting his thoughts above the human, the Corinthians sent envoys to offer their congratulations and presented him with the citizenship of their city.

so too the Corinthians, with Archias, fortify Syracuse.

Paul, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, marks the deniers and doubters of the resurrection.

" Likewise it is written to the Corinthians that they were still carnal, who were nourished with milk, not yet fit for solid food;

Here he found arrayed against him the Thebans, Athenians, Argives, Corinthians, Aenianians, Euboeans, and both the Locrian tribes.

Some time afterwards, finding that the Argives were enjoying the fruits of their land, that they had appropriated Corinth and were finding the war a pleasant occupation, he made an expedition against them.

When the enemy sent embassies desiring peace, Agesilaus opposed the peace until he forced Corinth and Thebes to restore to their homes the citizens who had been exiled on account of their sympathy with the Lacedaemonians.