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  • Phliasian, and six hundred Sicyonian hoplites, as well as the followers whom he had previously collected. 46 He had hoped to find Nisaea still untaken; but the news of the capture reached him on his exit from the hills at Tripodiscus, where he did not arrive until night.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Corinth, taking with them Lacdaemonian and Sicyonian envoys, and summoned the Corinthians to withdraw the troops and the colonists, telling them that they had nothing to do with Epidamnus.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Meanwhile a certain Sicyonian captain, Athenadas by name, said to himself: “Dercylidas does but trifle to waste his time here, whilst I with my own hand can draw off their water from the men of Cybrene”; wherewith he ran forward with his division and essayed to choke up the spring which supplied the city.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Here he summoned a meeting of the Sicyonian aristocrats already within the walls, and sent to fetch those others who had been banished without

    Hellenica 2007

  • Agraean and Acarnanian troops together with four hundred Athenian hoplites whom he had on board in a descent on the Sicyonian coast.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • But the garrison sallied out and covered the Sicyonian himself with wounds, besides killing two of his men.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Corinthian town of Chalcis, and, making a descent upon Sicyon, defeated a Sicyonian force.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • The Sicyonians also sent off two hundred heavy infantry at same time as the Corinthians, under the command of Sargeus, a Sicyonian.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • In him you shall find that in the Sicyonian treasure there was a golden book dedicated to the god, with this inscription: Aristomache, the poetess of Erythraea, dedicated this after she had got the prize at the Isthmian games.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • In him you shall find that in the Sicyonian treasure there was a golden book dedicated to the god, with this inscription: Aristomache, the poetess of Erythraea, dedicated this after she had got the prize at the Isthmian games.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

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