71.15
When the Argives entered the Theban alliance, In 370 B.C. ambassadors of the Athenians arrived at Arcadia and accused both nations; and when Callistratus, the chief speaker, held up Orestes and Oedipus as a reproach to their respective cities, Epameinondas, rising to reply, said, We admit that we have had a parricide among us, and the Argives a matricide; but we expelled from our land those who did these deeds, and the Athenians received them ί Cf. Moralia, 810 F, and Cornelius Nepos, Epaminondas, xv. 6. 1-3.
71.16
When the Spartans accused the Thebans of a long list of serious offences, he retorted, These Thebans, however, have put a stop to your brevity of speech ! Cf. Moralia, 545 A.
71.17
When the Athenians took as a friend Alexander, the despot of Pherae, who was an enemy of the Thebans, and he promised to supply the Athenians with meat to be sold at a penny a pound, Epameinondas said, But we will supply them with wood to cook their meat for nothing; for we will cut down everything in their land, if they make any trouble.