The sources of Hellenica

1. Hippocrates 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 1

   The passage explicitly reports the content of a specific written dispatch, identified by its author, without the narrator endorsing or refuting it, merely recounting that it was intercepted and taken to Athens.

   Meanwhile a letter dispatched to Lacedaemon by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus, was intercepted and taken to Athens;

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

book 1 5 sources

Decree of Cannonus · Law concerning temple-robbers and traitors · Letter of the generals to the Senate and the Assembly · The King's compact on Lacedaemonian naval pay · The Persian King's rescript appointing Cyrus caranus of the coastlands

book 2 8 sources

Athenian decree forbidding proposals to destroy the walls · Athenian decree on cutting off the hands of captives · Lacedaemonian law forbidding a man to hold the admiralship twice · The Spartan peace terms of 404 BC · The constitution of the Lacedaemonians · The decree establishing the Thirty to frame the ancient laws · the law concerning citizens on the roll of the Three Thousand · the treaty between the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians

book 3 3 sources

account of Cyrus's expedition, the battle, and the Greeks' return (i.e. the work later known as the Anabasis) · ancestral principle against consulting the oracle about wars between Greeks · oracle of Apollo warning against a 'lame kingship'

book 4 3 sources

Oracle of Apollo at Delphi · Oracle of Zeus at Olympia · The Spartan custom of sacrificing a goat to Artemis Agrotera before battle

book 5 7 sources

Athenian formal decree recalling troops from Aegina · King Artaxerxes' peace writing · Olynthian-Lacedaemonian sworn agreement · Resolution of the allies for the Olynthus expedition · Theban law authorizing polemarch arrest · allied speeches at Lacedaemon · mutual oaths at Thespiae

book 6 8 sources

Apollo's response concerning the sacred treasures · Athenian decrees and allied resolutions · King's peace treaty · King's writing on the independence of Greek cities · Oaths of the peace · Old saying about decimation · Oracle about Lacedaemonian defeat at the monument of the virgins · Tradition of Triptolemus, Demeter, Core, Heracles, and the Dioscuri

book 7 7 sources

Ancestral inheritance of Messene · Claim to priority in charge of the Olympic sanctuary · Decree on extradition of exiles from the allied cities · The Greek custom of returning the dead under a truce · The King's rescript (peace terms dictated by the Persian King) · The ancient laws of Sicyon · The killing of Archias and Hypates (Theban precedent)

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the book that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 36

   Xenophon's historical account is cited as authority for the rule that a subject's goods may be seized when his ruler is an enemy.

   Thus Dercyllides argues, in Xenophon, that as Pharnabazus was an enemy to the Lacedaemonians, every thing belonging to Mania, who was his subject, might be seized by the laws of war.