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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Corcyra

    place · 8 works · 19 mentions · 31 anchored passages

    island of Corcyra

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    The island city that colonized Epidamnus, whose refusal to aid its colony and subsequent naval strength drive the central conflict of this window.

    And this they entreated in the character of suppliants, sitting down in the temple of Juno.
    chapter 1
    and on the ground of the Phaeacians, who were famous in naval matters, having before lived in Corcyra.
    chapter 1
    Corcyra then in this way outlived the war with the Corinthians;
    chapter 1

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    An island subject to Periander, to which Lycophron is exiled and where he is eventually killed.

    Many place the more becoming thing before the just;
    chapter 3
    Lycophron did not dignify the invitation with a reply.
    chapter 3
    Periander got ready to go to Corcyra and Lycophron to go to Corinth;
    chapter 3

    Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

    Destination of Timotheus' cited voyage.

    All will answer with one voice, that they honored Chabrias for the battle of Naxos, and Iphicrates because he destroyed a regiment of the Lacedaemonians, and Timotheus because of his voyage to Corcyra, and other men, each because of many a glorious deed in war.
    against ctesiphon

    Against Aphobus IClassical · Greek

    The island destination of Aphobus's naval expedition as trierarch.

    and after getting this, when he was about to set sail for Corcyra as trierarch, he sent Therippides a written acknowledgement that he had these sums in his possession, and admitted that he had received the marriage-portion.
    against aphobus i

    Against AristocratesClassical · Greek

    Place whose capture is attributed to Timotheus in the critique of individual honors.

    But today, men of Athens, it is commonly said that Corcyra was captured by Timotheus, that the Spartan battalion was cut to pieces by Iphicrates, that the naval victory off Naxos was won by Chabrias.
    against aristocrates

    Against TimocratesClassical · Greek

    The place to which Timocrates’ sister is said to have been sent after a corrupt marriage arrangement.

    An enemy of yours from Corcyra, one of the faction now in power there, used to lodge at his house whenever he came here on embassy, and wanted to have his sister,—I will not say on what terms.
    against timocrates

    AntidosisClassical · Greek

    Strategic city near the Peloponnese captured by Timotheus.

    For who does not know that Corcyra has the best strategic position among the cities in the neighborhood of the Peloponnese;
    antidosis
    Indeed, for the voyage of the fleet around the Peloponnese, Athens allowed him only thirteen talents and fifty triremes, and yet he captured Corcyra, a city with a fleet of eighty triremes, and about the same time he won a naval battle over the Lacedaemonians and forced them to agree to the terms of the present peace—a peace which has so changed the relative positions of Athens and of Lacedaemon t …
    antidosis

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    An island or city brought under Timotheus' control and used for additional ships.

    As for Timotheus, after he had sailed round Peloponnesus he brought Corcyra at once under his control;
    chapter 5
    When, however, Timotheus finished refitting the ships which he had and had manned, besides, others from Corcyra, the whole number of his ships now amounting to more than seventy, he was far superior to the enemy in the size of his fleet.
    chapter 5