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.
When they set up images made of these olive trees, their land brought forth fruit, and they fulfilled their agreement with the Athenians.
Now at this time, as before it, the Aeginetans were in all matters still subject to the Epidaurians and even crossed to Epidaurus for the hearing of their own private lawsuits.
Then the Athenians sent an angry message to the Epidaurians who pleaded in turn that they were doing no wrong.
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;