Xenophon, Memorabilia, Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator), 3.5.10

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[10]
Do you refer to the judgment of the gods,¹ which Cecrops delivered in his court because of his virtue?
Yes, and the care and birth of Erectheus,² and the war waged in his day with all the adjacent country, and the war between the sons of Heracles³ and the Peloponnesians, and all the wars waged in the days of Theseus,⁴ in all of which it is manifest that they were champions among the men of their time.

Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.

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Memorabilia (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 4. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923.)

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Ἀπομνημονεύματα Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 2. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 3.5.10 focus

[10] ἆρα λέγεις τὴν τῶν θεῶν κρίσιν, ἣν οἱ περὶ Κέκροπα διʼ ἀρετὴν ἔκριναν; λέγω γάρ, καὶ τὴν Ἐρεχθέως γε τροφὴν καὶ γένεσιν, καὶ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν ἐπʼ ἐκείνου γενόμενον πρὸς τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ἐχομένης ἠπείρου πάσης, καὶ τὸν ἐφʼ Ἡρακλειδῶν πρὸς τοὺς ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ, καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἐπὶ Θησέως πολεμηθέντας, ἐν οἷς πᾶσιν ἐκεῖνοι δῆλοι γεγόνασι τῶν καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἀνθρώπων ἀριστεύσαντες·

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Memorabilia

1. i.e., between Poseidon and Athena for the possession of Attica .

2. Iliad, II. 547. Ἐρεχθῇος μεγαλήτορος οὕ ποτ᾽ Ἀθήνη θρέψε Διὸς θυγάτηρ, τέκε δὲ ζείδωρος Ἄρουρα.

3. The Athenians claimed that it was through their assistance that the sons of Heracles gained the victory (Herodotus, ix. 27).

4. Against the Amazons and Thracians.

Xenophon Memorabilia 3.5.10

Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator)

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