Megara

In the course of the same summer, after the reduction of Lesbos, the Athenians made an expedition under the command of Nicias, son of Niceratus, against the island of Minoa, which lies off Megara, and which the Megareans used as a fortress, having built a tower on it.

From this spot, being more close at hand, Nicias wished the Athenians to keep their guard [over Nisaea], instead of from Budorum and Salamis, and to prevent the Peloponnesians from sailing out thence unobserved, as was formerly the case, with triremes and privateers;

and the Athenians, having broken down the long walls at their abutment on Megara, and having taken possession of Nisaea, proceeded with their other preparations.

Yes, and since then you all remember how many times you have been agitated by news of Philip’s army and auxiliaries at Porthmus or at Megara.

At Megara the other day was not Perillus tried before the Three Hundred on a charge of visiting Philip?

Instead of the surrender to you of Euboea in exchange for Amphipolis, Philip is establishing positions in Euboea as a base of attack upon you, and is constantly plotting against Geraestus and Megara.

And when they fled to Piraeus, they drove many of them away from there also, and filled both Megara and Thebes with the refugees.

On that day, then, they took dinner as best they could at Aegosthena in the territory of Megara;

There he left Phoebidas as governor, while he himself crossed the mountain again to Megara, disbanded the allies, and led his citizen troops back home.

— so, when peace was made in the archonship of Phrasicleides, and the battle was fought at Leuctra between the Thebans and the Lacedaemonians, this man Stephanus, having at the time come to Megara and having put up at Neaera’s house, as at the house of a courtesan, and having had intercourse with her, she told him all that had taken place and her brutal treatment by Phrynion.

So he brought her with him from Megara to Athens, and with her her three children, Proxenus and Ariston and a daughter whom they now call Phano.

Since, then, she was treated with wanton outrage by Phrynion, and was not loved as she expected to be, and since her wishes were not granted by him, she packed up his household goods and all the clothing and jewelry with which he had adorned her person, and, taking with her two maid-servants, Thratta and Coccalinêe, ran off to Megara.

whereas he himself, putting up nearby at Megara, could be at Athens the next day quite easily—by way of Eleusis, if he wished, or, if not, by a shorter way through Salamis, not journeying through desert stations;

But that it is not place that affords the not doing of base things, nor going abroad, nor having retired to Corinth or Thebes, but that it is for the man who wishes to be with himself—for both in Thebes and in Megara, and well-nigh everywhere a man may go in Greece and Italy, there is the possibility of idling and taking one's ease, and he will be at no loss for a pretext, wherever he may chance t …

For instance, if a man being an Athenian, when he ought to take the field for his country, the Lacedaemonians having invaded Attica, or Philip coming on, or other enemies, should withdraw to Megara or Aegina in order not to serve and not to face danger—would this man be said to have retired?

Yes, Simmias of Thebes and Cebes and Phaedonides, and from Megara Euclides and Terpsion.

For, by Dog, I fancy these bones and sinews of mine would have been in Megara or Boeotia long ago, carried thither by an opinion of what was best, if I did not think it was better and nobler to endure any penalty the city may inflict rather than to escape and run away.

From Megara he informed the Council that if immunity were granted him, he was prepared not only to lodge an information with regard to the Mysteries—as one of the participants, he would reveal the names of his companions—but he would also tell what he knew of the mutilation of the Hermae.

On his return from Megara Teucrus was guaranteed his immunity.

Now take the days when we were fighting Euboea and controlled Megara, Pegae, and Troezen.

Then we went to war again on account of Megara, and allowed Attica to be laid waste;

for instance, he gives a dinner to his club on the scale of a wedding banquet, and when equipping a chorus at the comedies he brings it on in purple at its first entrance, as is done at Megara.

then he made off to Megara, where he has settled and paid the alien’s tax.

She kept him in safe hiding during the first few days, when the police were searching and advertising for him, and then she gave him eight drachmas journey-money and a tunic and a cloak and packed him off to Megara.

and to anchor in Thieves’ Harbor is the same as if one were to anchor in Aegina or Megara;

Because we neglected Euboea, Megara was very nearly captured.

What if he quits Thrace and never approaches the Chersonese or Byzantium—for you must take that also into your reckoning—but turns up at Chalcis and Megara, just as he did at Oreus not long ago?

or to snatch up arms and march against Corinth or Megara, but to let Philip enslave Greek cities, because you are short of rations for a campaign.

He accordingly turned about and led his army against Megara, his cavalry going first and overrunning the lands of that city.

And you yourself, if you go to one of the nearest cities, to Thebes or Megara—for both are well governed—will go as an enemy, Socrates, to their government, and all who care for their own cities will look askance at you, and will consider you a destroyer of the laws, and you will confirm the judges in their opinion, so that they will think their verdict was just.

Demetrius, surnamed Poliorcetes, had captured Megara.

Further, the story goes that when Lysander came to him bringing the gifts form the allies, this Cyrus showed him various marks of friendliness, as Lysander himself related once to a stranger at Megara, adding besides that Cyrus personally showed him round his paradise at Sardis.