Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XV, Chapter 57

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

Greek and Roman Materials

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

book : chapter : section

When the year had ended, at Athens Dysnicetus was archon, and in Rome military tribunes with consular power were elected, four in number: Quintus Servilius, Lucius Furius, Gaius Licinius, and Publius Coelius. During their term of office the Thebans, taking the field with a large army against Orchomenus, aimed to reduce the city to slavery, but when Epameinondas advised them that any who aimed at supremacy over the Greeks ought to safeguard by their generous treatment what they had achieved by their valour, they changed their mind. Accordingly they reckoned the people of Orchomenus as belonging to the territory of their allies, and later, having made friends of the Phocians, Aetolians, and Locrians, returned to Boeotia again.² [2] Jason,³ tyrant of Pherae, whose power was constantly increasing, invaded Locris, first took Heracleia in Trachinia by treachery, laid it waste, and gave the country to the Oetaeans and Malians; then later, moving into Perrhaebia, he won over some of the cities by generous promises, and subdued others by force. As his position of influence speedily became established, the inhabitants of Thessaly looked with suspicion on his aggrandizement and encroachments. [3]

While these things were going on, in the city of Argos civil strife broke out accompanied by slaughter of a greater number than is recorded ever to have occurred anywhere else in Greece. Among the Greeks this revolutionary movement was called "Club-law," receiving this appellation on account of the manner of the execution.

1 370/69 B.C.

2 For the allies of the Thebans in 370 see Xen. Hell. 6.5.23; Xen. Ages. 2.24.

3 See Xen. Hell. 6.4.27-28.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Cross-references to this page (6):
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ORCHO´MENUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TRACHIS
- Smith's Bio, Calvus or Calvus Stolo
- Smith's Bio, Epaminondas
- Smith's Bio, Jason
- Smith's Bio, Maceri'nus
Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
- Isocrates, To Philip, Isoc. 5 52
- Isocrates, Archidamus, Isoc. 6 55
Cross-references in notes from this page (2):
- Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.4.27
- Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.5.23
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (2):
- LSJ, σκυ^τα^λ-ισμός
- LSJ, στερεό-ω

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Diodorus Siculus, Library

This text is part of:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents: