Aegina

moreover they cut off the ships' prows, that were shaped like boars' heads, and dedicated them in the temple of Athena in Aegina.

since he could not stand him, he left him and went to Aegina.

These they took away and set them up in the middle of their own country at a place called Oea, about twenty furlongs distant from their city.

The aegine tans also after this surrendered on condition to the Athenians, demolishing their walls, and giving up their ships, and agreeing to pay tribute in future.

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.

After this, war having been commenced by the Athenians on the aeginetans, a great sea-fight took place off aegina, between the Athenians and the aeginetans, and the allies were present on both sides;

Meantime Lysander, upon reaching Aegina, restored the state to the Aeginetans, gathering together as many of them as he could, and he did the same thing for the Melians also and for all the others who had been deprived of their native states.

After this Hierax arrived from Lacedaemon as admiral.

and when he was distant from the harbour five or six stadia, he remained quiet and let his men rest.

An action of this kind was done by Pausanias the Lacedaemonian, who, being urged by the people of Aegina to retaliate upon the Persians for their treatment of Leonidas, rejected the advice, as unbecoming his own character and the Grecian name.

Thus the Lacedaemonians, after taking Aegina from the Athenians, restored it to its ancient owners.

the culprits, he said, were Alcibiades of Phegus and Amiantus of Aegina.

Later we went to war on account of Aegina;

It is said that Aristeides was banished by your ancestors and lived in Aegina till the people recalled him, and that Miltiades and Pericles, being fined thirty and fifty talents respectively, did not try to harangue the people until they had paid in full.

and to anchor in Thieves’ Harbor is the same as if one were to anchor in Aegina or Megara;

How skilfully, as your commander, he drew up your ranks at Thebes to face the whole power of the Peloponnese, how he slew Gorgopas in Aegina, what trophies he set up in Cyprus and afterwards in Egypt, how he visited, I might almost say, every land, yet nowhere disgraced our city’s name or his own—of all these exploits it is by no means easy to speak adequately, and it would be a great shame if my …

He pursued them, but was taken captive by a trireme and brought to Aegina, where he was sold.

but in Aegina Strymodorus gave his wife in marriage to Hermaeus, his own slave, and again, after her death, gave him his own daughter.

For instance, if a man being an Athenian, when he ought to take the field for his country, the Lacedaemonians having invaded Attica, or Philip coming on, or other enemies, should withdraw to Megara or Aegina in order not to serve and not to face danger—would this man be said to have retired?

When, for instance, he settled in Aegina and fell ill of the malady which resulted in his death, I nursed him with a care such as no one else I know of has ever bestowed upon another.

I was of opinion, citizens of Aegina, that Thrasylochus had arranged his affairs so prudently that no one should ever come before a court to bring a suit in opposition to the will which he left.

Having gained their desire, they were saved and built in Aegina a temple to be shared by all the Greeks on the very spot where he had offered his prayer.

May there be a third libation of honey-voiced songs to pour over Aegina in honor of Zeus Soter of Olympia.

Men whose voices name the outstanding island of Aegina as their fatherland, built long ago as a tower for lofty excellence to ascend.

Achilles, champion of the sons of Aeacus, showed them the way to the house of Persephone, and thus brought fame to Aegina and to his race.

I entreat you, come in the sacred month of Nemea to the much-visited Dorian island of Aegina.

such loves,the shepherds of Cyprian Aphrodite’s gifts, attended the marriage-bed of Zeus and Aegina.

I have this bold speech to make, an authoritative path of words from their home, for their shining excellence.

He was beautiful to look at, and his deeds did not belie his beauty when by his victory in wrestling he had Aegina with her long oars proclaimed as his fatherland.

and the prizes of the bronze shield in Argos and the works of art in Arcadia and Thebes are familiar with him, and the duly ordered contests of the Boeotians, and Pellana and Aegina, where he was six times victor.

And then, suppose that you had to make what show you could of your ancestors, and of Salamis as the native land of Eurysaces, or of Aegina as the home of the yet earlier Aeacus, to impress Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes, how you must expect to be laughed at!

Let us, then, grant this, my friend, or we shall get into trouble, like the belated night wanderers in the road at Aegina, and in very truth we shall be found to have arrived too late;

They were said to be in Aegina.