Epidaurians
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the Epidaurians · the men of Epidaurus
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Epidaurus, allied with Corinth against Athens across several episodes including Haliae, Aegina, and the Megarean revolt.
Now the Megareans had revolted, after calling to their aid the Corinthians, and Sicyonians, and Epidaurians.
The Athenians, having with their fleet made a descent on Haliae, had a battle with the Corinthians and Epidaurians, and the Corinthians gained the victory.
Then the Peloponnesians, wishing to assist the aeginetans, sent over to aegina three hundred heavy-armed, who were before auxiliaries of the Corinthians and Epidaurians.
The Histories
Population of Epidaurus whose barren land is remedied by setting up olive-wood images of Damia and Auxesia with Athenian permission, later losing the images to an Aeginetan revolt.
Then the Athenians sent an angry message to the Epidaurians who pleaded in turn that they were doing no wrong.
In the course of this struggle, they did the Epidaurians much damage and stole their images of Damia and Auxesia.
So the men of Epidaurus asked the Athenians to permit them to cut down some olive trees, supposing the olives there to be the holiest.
Archidamus
A Greek people used as a contrast to Spartan obligations.
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;
Hellenica
The people of Epidaurus, whose territory is ravaged by the Theban-led coalition.
they also made an expedition to Epidaurus, and laid waste the whole territory of the Epidaurians.