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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

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XCIII. The next day the Four Hundred, although alarmed, nevertheless assembled in the council chamber, while the heavy infantry in Piraeus, after having released their prisoner Alexicles and pulled down the fortification, went with their arms to the theatre of Dionysus, close to Munychia, and there held an assembly in which they decided to march into the city, and setting forth accordingly halted in the Anaceum. [2] Here they were joined by some delegates from the Four Hundred, who reasoned with them one by one, and persuaded those whom they saw to be the most moderate to remain quiet themselves, and to keep in the rest; saying that they would make known the Five Thousand, and have the Four Hundred chosen from them in rotation, as should be decided by the Five Thousand, and meanwhile entreated them not to ruin the state or drive it into the arms of the enemy. [3] After a great many had spoken and had been spoken to, the whole body of heavy infantry became calmer than before, absorbed by their fears for the country at large, and now agreed to hold upon an appointed day an assembly in the theatre of Dionysus for the restoration of concord.

There are a total of 17 comments on and cross references to this page.

Cross references from The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister):
peiraeus [ PEIRAEUS or Peiraieus, Attica, Greece. ]

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
1308 [GENITIVE OF THE DIVIDED WHOLE (PARTITIVE GENITIVE)]: to pan plêthos tôn hoplitôn
* [1. apo with the Genitive only]: apo pollôn kai pros pollous logoi gignomenoi

Cross references from E.C. Marchant, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 6:
6, 33, 5

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 105, 3
8, 86, 3
8, 97, 1

Cross references from C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 5:
5, 65

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
peloponnesian-war [Peloponnesian War]
fig.01557 [Remains of Greek Theatre at Syracuse.]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
Lysias, 13, 32 [Kata Agoratou]

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Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.