Megalopolitans
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the Megalopolitans · them
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For the People of Megalopolis
The inhabitants of Megalopolis, seeking or eligible for Athenian alliance against Spartan pressure.
and I urge you not to abandon the Megalopolitans, and, as a general principle, never to sacrifice the weak to the strong.
But these, I take it, are the allegations of men who want once again to drive the Megalopolitans elsewhere for an alliance.
If, then, all the powers consent to keep peace, we will not help the Megalopolitans, for it will be unnecessary, so that there will be no question of our opposing our comrades in arms;
On the Peace
A Peloponnesian people grouped with other opponents of Lacedaemonian policy.
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;
Hellenica
Citizens of Megalopolis, named among the Arcadian communities supporting Epaminondas.
These were the Tegeans, the Megalopolitans, the Aseans, the Pallantians, and whatever cities were constrained to adopt this course for the reason that they were small and surrounded by these others.