Chersonese

After this Alcibiades went off to the Hellespont and the Chersonese to collect money;

Alcibiades was not present at the exchange of these oaths, but was in the neighbourhood of Selymbria;

So Alcibiades, who was in disfavour with the army as well, took a trireme and sailed away to his castle in the Chersonese.

Stesagoras, the elder of Cimon 's sons, was then being brought up with his uncle Miltiades in the Chersonese.

It was this Miltiades who was now the Athenian general, after coming from the Chersonese and escaping a two-fold death.

But a great many years later, when the Chersonese on the Hellespont was made subject to Athens, Miltiades son of Cimon accomplished the voyage from Elaeus on the Chersonese to Lemnos with the Etesian winds then constantly blowing;

First I went to war with the Thracians, and for the sake of Greece I inflicted punishment upon them with your aid, driving them out of the Chersonese when they wanted to deprive the Greeks who dwelt there of their land.

And Clearchus, taking the gold, collected an army by means of this money, and using the Chersonese as a base of operations, proceeded to make war upon the Thracians who dwell beyond the Hellespont, thereby aiding the Greeks.

then, as soon as peace had come, he persuaded his state that the Thracians were injuring the Greek, and, after gaining his point as best he could from the ephors, set sail with the intention of making war upon the Thracians who dwelt beyond the Chersonese and Perinthus.

but we had his promise that while you were deliberating concerning peace, he would not set foot on the Chersonese with an armed force.

And Philip from his base in Macedonia was no longer contending with us for Amphipolis, but already for Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, our own possessions, while our citizens were abandoning the Chersonese, the undisputed property of Athens.

The situation was so precarious and dangerous that Cephisophon of Paeania, one of the friends and companions of Chares, was compelled to make the motion that Antiochus, who commanded the dispatch boats, should sail immediately and hunt up the general who had been put in charge of our forces, and in case he should happen to find him anywhere, should tell him that the people of Athens were astonishe …

It is essential that at the outset I should explain to you the circumstances to which you owe the secure possession of the Chersonese, for in the light of that knowledge you will get a clear perception of the wrong that has been committed.

but, inasmuch as one of our grievances is that certain persons make speeches and move resolutions designed to avert your suspicions and put you off your guard, you must not be greatly astonished if we convince you that this decree also is so worded that, while apparently offering some personal protection to Charidemus, it really robs our city of an honest and effective safeguard for the Chersonese.

Men of Athens, I beg that none of you will imagine that I have come here to arraign the defendant Aristocrates from any motive of private malice, or that I am thrusting myself so eagerly into a quarrel because I have detected some small and trivial blunder, but if my judgement and my views are at all right, the purpose of all my exertions in this case is that you may hold the Chersonese securely, …

Well then, is it to get back the Chersonese, our colonies, our landed property abroad, and the debts owed us?

and, in virtue of his being Sparta’s representative at Athens, we recalled Cimon’s son, Miltiades,who had been ostracized and was living in the Chersonese, for the one purpose of sending him to Sparta to make overtures for an armistice.

He was dwelling in Ophrynium because of his being an exile from home, when the earthquake in the Chersonese occurred;

So you, if you hear of Philip in the Chersonese, vote an expedition there;

All this is a necessary provision against Philip’s sudden raids from Macedonia against Thermopylae, the Chersonese, Olynthus, or where he will.

They have a dispute with you;

This is proved by the inscription on the altar of Zeus, which runs thus:

Philip’s insolence is carried so far that he says that if the Cardians decline arbitration, he will be responsible for coercing them;

And then again we are not certain of another thing, that he will not attack the Chersonese.

The really serious problem is the state of the Chersonese and Philip’s Thracian campaign, now in its eleventh month;

If, therefore, our present force is still in being, it will be able both to save the Chersonese and to make raids upon Philip’s territory.

(The Decree of the Chersonesites is read.

Read also of the crowns awarded by the inhabitants of the Chersonese.

Subsequently I dispatched all those squadrons by which the Chersonese was rescued from him, and Byzantium, and all our allies.

Moreover, you will find that the Chersonese is in greater danger now than then.

If as an offset to the Phocians and Thermopylae and all our other losses he tells you that the city still retains the Chersonese, I adjure you not to accept that excuse.

In the same way by agreement with Philip we have waived our claim to Amphipolis, and we are permitting Cardia to be excepted from the rest of the Chersonese, the Carian to occupy the islands of Chios, Cos, and Rhodes, and the Byzantines to detain our ships in harbor, obviously because we think that the respite which the peace affords is more productive of advantages than wrangling and coming to bl …

Our mutual hostility has become so acute that, when I wanted to convey my fleet to the Hellespont, I was compelled to escort it with my army through the Chersonese, because your settlers there were at war with us in accordance with the decree of Polycrates, backed up by your resolutions, and your general was inciting the Byzantines and publicly announcing that your orders were to make war on me, if he got the chance.

It would indeed have been fair, men of Athens, to call upon those who conveyed to you Philip’s promises, on the strength of which you were induced to conclude the Peace.

Of our own possessions, not to mention other places, is he not holding Cardia, the greatest city in the Chersonese?

I so far dissent, Athenians, from all you counsellors that I do not think you ought to trouble yourselves now about the Chersonese or Byzantium.

But I do contend that we must send supplies to the forces in the Chersonese and satisfy all their demands, and while we make preparation ourselves, we must summon, collect, instruct, and exhort the rest of the Greeks.

and having done this they sailed away to the Chersonese, leaving many of the captives and not a few of the other possessions.

for Troilus would never have exercised outside the wall, and that far from the city, nor would they have farmed the Chersonese, as all agree, if they were masters of the Troad, nor would wine have been brought to them from Lemnos.

Well, then, from Samos he sailed away and captured Sestos and Crithôte, forcing you, who up to that time had been careless of your interests in the Chersonese, to give your attention to that territory.

For do not think that Cersobleptes will wage war with us over the Chersonese, or Philip over Amphipolis, when they see that we do not covet any of the possessions of other peoples.

while someone will have to make our own people see that, if we got possession of Amphipolis, we should be compelled to maintain the same friendly attitude toward your policy, because of our colonists there, as we did for the elder Amadocus because of our landholders in the Chersonese.

When they found that they were on the eve of an engagement, they extended their flank, the Athenians along the Chersonese, from Idacus to Arrhiana, with seventy-six ships;

Accordingly that same night, sailing as quickly as they could, and keeping close under the shore of the Chersonese, they coasted along towards Elaeus, wishing to escape from the enemy's fleet into the open sea.