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Demosthenes, Philippic 1, section 32 (search)
Bearing this in mind, we must rely not on occasional
levies, or we shall be too late for everything, but on a regular standing army.
You have the advantage of winter bases for your troops in Lemnos, Thasos, Sciathos, and the neighboring islands, where are to be
found harbors, provisions, and everything that an army needs; and during that
season of the year when it is easy to stand close in to shore and the winds are
steady, your force will easily lie off his coast and at the mouth of his
seaports.
Demosthenes, On the Halonnesus, section 15 (search)
and furthermore that he should have a free
hand to cruise about and anchor off the different islands and, under pretence of
protecting them from pirates, bribe the islanders to revolt from you. Not
content with getting your commanders to carry refugees from Macedonia to Thasos, he claims the right to appropriate the other islands
also, and sends agents to accompany your commanders, as if to share with you the
task of policing the seas.
Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 197 (search)
In respect of the business of which I am
speaking— and at present I discuss nothing else—I am a
better citizen than you, in so far as I devoted myself to a course of action
that was unanimously approved, neither shirking nor even counting any personal
danger. You made no more acceptable suggestion, otherwise mine would not have
been adopted; and in carrying out mine you were not of the slightest use. You
are proved after the event to have behaved throughout like a worthless and most
unpatriotic citizen; and now, by a strange coincidence, those thorough-going
enemies of Athens, Aristratus at
Naxos and Aristolaus at Thasos, are bringing the friends of Athens to trial, while at Athens itself Aeschines is accusing
Demosthen
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 59 (search)
In the first place, then, will you not wrong the
Thasian supporters of Ecphantus, if you revoke their immunity—I mean
the men who handed over Thasos to you
by expelling the armed garrison of the Lacedaemonians and admitting
Thrasybulus,408-407 B.C. There is some discrepancy as to the
date between our two authorities, Xenophon and Diodorus, neither of whom
mentions Ecedaemonians and admitting
Thrasybulus,408-407 B.C. There is some discrepancy as to the
date between our two authorities, Xenophon and Diodorus, neither of whom
mentions Ecphantus, presumably a democratic leader in Thasos. and thus, by bringing their
own country on to your side, were the means of winning for you the alliance of
the district bordering on Thrace?
Demosthenes, Against Leptines, section 62 (search)
just as Thasos and
Byzantium then were friendly
to the Lacedaemonians and estranged from you—promised to hand them
over to you in return for the same rewards that you gave to Ecphantus of
Thasos and Archebius of Byzantium; and suppose some of these
gentlemen here objected to their proposal on the ground that it would be
monstrous if a select few of the resident aliens wThasos and Archebius of Byzantium; and suppose some of these
gentlemen here objected to their proposal on the ground that it would be
monstrous if a select few of the resident aliens were to escape the public
services; how would you deal with their arguments? Is it not certain that you
would refuse to listen to such malignant pettifoggers? If so, then it is
disgraceful that you should consider such an objection malignant when you are
going to receive a benefit, but should lend an ear to it when it is proposed to
revoke your gifts to former benefactors. Now let us pass to anothe
While these events were taking place Thrasybulus, the
Athenian general, sailing to Thasos with fifteen ships
defeated in battle the troops who came out from the city and slew about two hundred of them;
then, having bottled them up in a siege of the city, he forced them to receive back their
exiles, that is the men who favoured the Athenians, to accept a garrison, and to be allies of
the Athenians. After this, sailing to Abdera,The birthplace
of the great Greek physical philosopher Democritus. he brought that city, which at that
time was among the most powerful in Thrace, over to
the side of the Athenians.Now the foregoing is what the Athenian
generals had accomplished since they sailed from Athens. But Agis, the king of the Lacedaemonians,
as it happened, was at the time in DeceleiaThe fortress
in Attica which the Lacedaemonians, on the advice of
Alcibiades (cp. chap. 9.2), had permanently occupied. with his army, and when
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 6, chapter 28 (search)
Then Histiaeus brought a great force of Ionians and Aeolians against Thasos. While he was besieging Thasos a message came that the Phoenicians were putting out to sea from Miletus to attack the rest of Ionia. When he learned this, he left Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all his army to Lesbos.
From there, since his armThasos a message came that the Phoenicians were putting out to sea from Miletus to attack the rest of Ionia. When he learned this, he left Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all his army to Lesbos.
From there, since his army suffered from hunger, he crossed over to reap from Atarneus the corn there and the Mysian corn of the Caicus plain. Now it chanced that in that region was Harpagus, a Persian, with no small force under him; when Histiaeus landed, Harpagus met him in battle and took Histiaeus himself alive and killed most of his army.
Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all his army to Lesbos.
From there, since his army suffered from hunger, he crossed over to reap from Atarneus the corn there and the Mysian corn of the Caicus plain. Now it chanced that in that region was Harpagus, a Persian, with no small force under him; when Histiaeus landed, Harpagus met him in battle and took Histiaeus himself alive and killed most of his army.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 6, chapter 44 (search)
This was the stated end of their expedition, but they intended to subdue as many of the Greek cities as they could. Their fleet subdued the Thasians, who did not so much as lift up their hands against it; their land army added the Macedonians to the slaves that they had already, for all the nations nearer to them than Macedonia had been made subject to the Persians before this.
Crossing over from Thasos they travelled near the land as far as Acanthus, and putting out from there they tried to round Athos. But a great and irresistible north wind fell upon them as they sailed past and dealt very roughly with them, driving many of their ships upon Athos.
It is said that about three hundred ships were lost, and more than twenty thousand men. Since the coasts of Athos abound in wild beasts, some men were carried off by beasts and so perished; others were dashed against the rocks; those who could not swim perished because of that, and still others by the cold.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 6, chapter 46 (search)