Oaths and covenants · Atlas

in the texts

On the Treaty with AlexanderClassical · Greek

The sworn obligations that ratify the general peace and are used to judge conduct under the treaty.

But from the very terms of the compact and from the oaths which ratified the general peace, you may at once see who are its transgressors;

on the treaty with alexander ¶

Our hearty assent, men of Athens, is due to those who insist that we should abide by our oaths and covenants, provided that they do so from conviction;

on the treaty with alexander ¶

but they have grown so insolent, with the tyrant’s troops for their bodyguard, that they insist on your observing the already violated oaths, as if Alexander’s absolute sovereignty extended over perjury also;

on the treaty with alexander ¶

ArchidamusClassical · Greek

The sworn agreements connecting the Heraclids, Spartan forefathers, and later claims of justice.

then having confirmed these covenants by mutual pledges, they set out upon the expedition.

archidamus ¶

Now you men of Sparta have until this day remained faithful to the oaths and to the covenants which you made with my forefathers;

archidamus ¶

and although it was only the other day that they razed both Thespiae and Plataea to the ground, yet now, after a lapse of four hundred years, they propose to settle their colonists in Messene acting in both cases contrary to the oaths and covenants.

archidamus ¶

On the PeaceClassical · Greek

Binding commitments whose neglect marks imperial corruption.

For in place of the ways of life established among them it filled the citizens with injustice, indolence, lawlessness and avarice and the commonwealth with contempt for its allies, covetousness of the possessions of other states, and indifference to its oaths and covenants.

on the peace ¶