Elis

In the next year—in which was celebrated the ninety-third Olympiad, when the newly added two-horse race was won by Euagoras of Elis and the stadium by Eubotas of Cyrene, Euarchippus being now ephor at Sparta and Euctemon archon at Athens —the Athenians fortified Thoricus;

And Agis, at the head of the army, made his entrance into the territory of Elis through Achaea, along the Larisus.

When these things had been agreed upon, a peace and an alliance were concluded between the Eleans and the Lacedaemonians.

it was not known, therefore, that I had killed him, but as soon as I had done so I went to a ship and besought the owners, who were Phoenicians, to take me on board and set me in Pylos or in Elis where the Epeans rule, giving them as much spoil as satisfied them.

The vessel made a quick passage to Pherai and thence on to Elis, where the Epeans rule.

Then Telemakhos said, "Mother, I am the only man either in Ithaca or in the islands that are over against Elis who has the right to let any one have the bow or to refuse it.

Pelops said to the god, “If the loving gifts of Cyprian Aphrodite result in any gratitude, Poseidon, then restrain the bronze spear of Oenomaus, and speed me in the swiftest chariot to Elis, and bring me to victory.

But now, from the bow of the Muses who, shooting from afar, send a shower of such arrows of song as these on Zeus of the red lightning-bolt and on the sacred height of Elis, which once the Lydian hero Pelops won as the very fine dowry of Hippodameia.

for once before those arrogant Moliones had destroyed his Tirynthian army, when it was encamped in the valley of Elis,

That the oaths shall be renewed by the Athenians, on going to Elis, Mantinea, and Argos, thirty days before the Olympic festival;

Now Demosthenes being at that time on his voyage for Corcyra, after he had built the fortifications on the side of Laconia, fell in with a merchant vessel anchored at Phea in the Elean territory, in which the Corinthian heavy-armed were to cross over to Sicily;

Yet thanks to his influence with the Masters of the Games at Elis, Alcibiades deprived him of his team and competed with it himself.

For they now say that Elis ought to receive parts of Triphylia, and Phlius the district of Tricaranum, and certain Arcadian tribes the land belonging to them, and that we ought to have Oropus, not because they want to see each of us enjoying our own, far from it—(that would be a tardy exhibition of philanthropy).

I pass over many other instances, such as Pherae, the raid against Ambracia, the massacres at Elis, and countless others.

Were there any persons in Elis who embezzled public money?

It has invaded Peloponnesus and caused the massacres at Elis.

But I think it strange (for it was always the way of my history to investigate excurses) that in the whole of Elis no mules can be conceived although the country is not cold, nor is there any evident cause.

but whenever the season is at hand for the mares to conceive, they drive them into the countries of their neighbors, and then send the asses after them, until the mares are pregnant, and then they drive them home again.

would that I were still young and strong as in the days when there was a fight between us and the men of Elis about some cattle-raiding.

Although this also seems to me to be a fine thing, if one might be able to teach people, as Gorgias of Leontini and Prodicus of Ceos and Hippias of Elis are.

And shall we not mention Hippias, our friend from Elis?