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In the tenth year after the seizure of the sanctuary, Philip put an end to the war, which was called both the Phocian War and the Sacred War, in the year when Theophilus was archon at Athens, which was the first of the hundred and eighth Olympiad348 B.C at which Polycles of Cyrene was victorious in the foot-race. The cities of Phocis were captured and razed to the ground. The tale of them was Lilaea, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus and Daulis. These cities were distinguished in days of old, especially because of the poetry of Homer.See Hom. Il. 2.520
The army of Xerxes, burning down certain of these, made them better known in Greece, namely Erochus, Charadra, Amphicleia, Neon, Tithronium and Drymaea. The rest of the Phocian cities, except Elateia, were not famous in former times, I mean Phocian Trachis, Phocian Medeon, Echedameia, Ambrossus, Ledon, Phlygonium and Stiris. On the occasion to which I have referred all the cities enumerated were razed to the ground and their peo
Plato, Theaetetus, section 143d (search)
SocratesIf I cared more for Cyrene and its affairs, Theodorus, I should ask you about things there and about the people, whether any of the young men there are devoting themselves to geometry or any other form of philosophy; but as it is, since I care less for those people than for the people here, I am more eager to know which of our own young men are likely to gain reputation. These are the things I myself investigate, so far as I can, and about which I question those others with whom I see that the young men like to associate. Now a great many of them come to you, and rightly,
TheodorusWhy, what do you mean, Socrates?SocratesWhen you rated sophist, statesman, and philosopher at the same value, though they are farther apart in worth than your mathematical proportion can express.TheodorusBy Ammon, our special divinity,Theodorus was from Cyrene, not far from the oasis of Ammon. that is a good hit, Socrates; evidently you havenÕt forgotten your mathematics, and you are quite right in, finding fault with my bad arithmetic. I will get even with you at some other time; but now, Stranger, I turn to you. Do not grow tired of being kind to us, but go on and tell us about the statesman or the philosopher,
Plato, Alcibiades 2, section 148e (search)
took counsel together and decided that the best thing they could do was to send and inquire of AmmonAn Ethiopian god whose cult spread over Egypt, and through Cyrene to various parts of Greece: he had temples at Thebes and Sparta, but the famous one in the Libyan desert is probably meant here.; and moreover, to ask also for what reason the gods granted victory to the Spartans rather than to themselves: “for we”—such was the message— “offer up to them more and finer sacrifices than any of the Greeks, and have adorned their temples with votive emblems as no other people have done, and presented to the gods the costliest and stateliest processions year by year, and spent more money
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, chapter 110 (search)
Thus the enterprise of the Hellenes came to ruin after six years of war.
Of all that large host a few travelling through Libya reached Cyrene in
safety, but most of them perished.
And thus Egypt returned to its subjection to the king, except Amyrtaeus,
the king in the marshes, whom they were unable to capture from the extent of
the marsh; the marshmen being also the most warlike of the Egyptians.
Inaros, the Libyan king, the sole author of the Egyptian revolt, was
betrayed, taken, and crucified.
Meanwhile a relieving squadron of fifty vessels had sailed from Athens and
the rest of the confederacy for Egypt.
They put in to shore at the Mendesian mouth of the Nile, in total ignorance
of what had occurred.
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK II, section 33 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK II, section 48 (search)