Iambe was a servant-maid of Metanira, wife of Celeus, king of Eleusis, who tried to exhilarate Ceres when she travelled over Attica in quest of her daughter Proserpine.

Second invasion of Attica by the Spartans. 429.

The Lacedaemonians invaded Attica with a great host of their own troops and those of their allies, led by Archidamus, their king.

It succeeded so well there, that Uthanaeus brings forward Lynceus and Antiphones, vaunting the figs of Attica as the best on earth.

"I visited all threeTripolitza, Napoli, and Argosin 1810-11; and in the course of journeying through the country, from my first arrival in 1809, crossed the Isthmus eight times on my way from Attica to the Morea."

PENTELICUS, a range of mountains in Attica between Athens and Marathon, famous for its quarries of fine white marble.

When the Acarnanians, who were naturally indignant, asked Philip to procure them satisfaction, he could not refuse the just request of his most faithful allies, and he allowed them to levy men in Macedonia and, with these and their own troops, to invade Attica without a formal declaration of war.