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TRIZIN (Ancient city) GREECE
The league, however, did not acquire any great strength until B.C. 251, when Aratus united Sicyon, his native place, with it, and some years later also gained Corinth for it. Megara, Troezen, and Epidaurus soon followed their example. Afterwards Aratus prevailed upon all the more important towns of Peloponnesus to join the confederacy, and Megalopolis, Argos, Hermione, Phlius, and others were added to it. In a short time the league thus reached its highest power, for it embraced Athens, Aegina, Salamis, and the whole of Peloponnesus, with the exception of Sparta, Tegea, Orchomenus, Mantinea, and Elis.
Putting out from Epidaurus, they (the Athenians) laid waste the territory of Troezen, Halieis, and Hermione, all towns on the coast of Peloponnese, and thence sailing to Prasiai, a maritime town in Laconia, ravaged part of its territory, and took and sacked the place itself; after which they returned home, but found the Peloponnesians gone and no longer in Attica.
...In this year (419 BC) the Argives, charging the Lacedaemonians (1)
with not paying the sacrifices to Apollo Pythaeus,(2) declared
war on them; and it was at this very time that Alcibiades, the Athenian general,
entered Argolis with an army. Adding these troops to their forces, the Argives
advanced against Troezen, a city which was an ally of the Lacedaemonians, and
after plundering its territory and burning its farm-buildings they returned home.
The Lacedaemonians, being incensed at the lawless acts committed against the Troezenians,
resolved to go to war against the Argives... (Diod. 12.78.1)
Commentary:
1. The Epidaurians, not the Lacedaemonians (see Thuc. 5.53); but Diodorus frequently
uses the term "Lacedaemonian" in a wide sense to refer to any ally of
Sparta.
2. The temple is likely the one in Asine, which was the only building spared by
the Argives when they razed that city (cp. Paus. 2.36.5; Thuc. 5.53.1).
...Epameinondas, who had with him the bravest of the Thebans, with great effort
forced back the Lacedaemonians, and cutting through their defence and bringing
his army through, passed into the Peloponnese, thereby accomplishing a feat no
whit inferior to his former mighty deeds. Having proceeded straightway to Troezen
and Epidaurus, he ravaged the countryside but could not seize the cities, for
they had garrisons of considerable strength... (Diod. 15.68.5-69.1)
. . . By these one thousand Troezenians were posted, and after them two hundred men of Lepreum
The following took part in the war: from the Peloponnese... the Troezenians furnished five ships...
The Troezenians furnished five ships
Those who fought best after the Athenians were the men of Corinth and Troezen and Sicyon.
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