Andocides, On the Peace with Sparta, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 22

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[22] Later we gave them our oath, were allowed to erect the column, and accepted a truce upon dictated terms, a hardship which was welcome enough at the time. Nevertheless we then proceeded, by means of an alliance, to detach Boeotia and Corinth from Sparta , and to resume friendly relations with Argos , thereby involving Sparta in the battle of Corinth .¹ Who, again, turned the king of Persia against Sparta ? Who enabled Conon to fight the engagement at sea which lost her her maritime supremacy?²

On the Peace with Sparta. Andocides. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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On the Peace with Sparta (English) (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).)

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[22] μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ὅρκους ὀμόσαντες αὐτοῖς καὶ τὴν στήλην εὑρόμενοι παρʼ¹ αὐτῶν στῆσαι, κακὸν ἀγαπητὸν ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ χρόνῳ, σπονδὰς ἤγομεν ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς. εἶτα δὲ συμμαχίαν ποιησάμενοι Βοιωτοὺς καὶ Κορινθίους ἀποστήσαντες αὐτῶν, Ἀργείους δὲ ἀγαγόντες εἰς τὴν ποτὲ φιλίαν, αἴτιοι τῆς ἐν Κορίνθῳ μάχης ἐγενόμεθα αὐτοῖς. τίνες δὲ βασιλέα πολέμιον αὐτοῖς ἐποίησαν, καὶ Κόνωνι τὴν ναυμαχίαν παρεσκεύασαν, διʼ ἣν ἀπώλεσαν τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς θαλάττης;

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1. i.e. Nemea in 394.

2. After Aegospotami Conon, the Athenian admiral, fled to the court of Evagoras of Salamis in Cyprus . Through his influence he ultimately won the confidence of the satrap Pharnabazus. In 397 he was put in charge of the Persian fleet, and in 394 utterly routed the Spartans under Peisander off Cnidus .

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