Lechaeum
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Hellenica
Corinth's port on the Corinthian Gulf, connected to the city by long walls through which Praxitas gains entry.
Accordingly two men, Pasimelus and Alcimenes, undertook by wading through a torrent to effect a meeting with Praxitas, the Lacedaemonian polemarch, who chanced to be on garrison duty with his regiment at Sicyon, and told him that they could give him entrance to the walls which reached down to Lechaeum.
As for themselves, setting out from Lechaeum as a base with one regiment and the Corinthian exiles, they made expeditions all round about the city of the Corinthians;
And being asked by many people what news he brought, he made no reply to anyone, but when he was near Agesilaus, he leaped down from his horse, ran up to him, and with a very gloomy face told him of the disaster to the regiment stationed in Lechaeum.
On the Peace with Sparta
Site of a Spartan victory over the combined Argive, Corinthian, Athenian, and Boeotian forces.
and the third at the capture of Lechaeum, against the full Argive and Corinthian forces, together with the Athenians and Boeotians present.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
A captured city whose fall prompted Dicaeogenes (III.)'s public but unfulfilled pledge of 300 drachmas toward the war effort.
) has never contributed anything, except that after the capture of Lechaeum, at the request of another citizen, he promised in the public assembly a subscription of 300 drachmas, a smaller sum than Cleonymus the Cretan.