Deceleia
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Embassy
A fortress in Attica occupied and fortified by Sparta during the Peloponnesian War, cited by Aeschines as a marker of Athens' historical peril.
But I urged that we should take warning from the Sicilian expedition, which was sent out to help the people of Leontini, at a time when the enemy were already in our own territory and Deceleia was fortified against us;
Against Timocrates
A place from which Glaucetes allegedly ravaged Athenian territory.
Was not he the man who first ran away to Deceleia, and, with Deceleia as his base, overran and harried your country?