History of the Peloponnesian War

The same summer Demosthenes, the Athenian general, went to Naupactus with forty ships immediately after the return from the Megarid.

For communications respecting the affairs of Boeotia were being carried on with Hippocrates and him by certain men in the cities, who wished to change the constitution, and to bring them under a democracy like that of Athens; it being especially under the direction of Ptoeodorus, an exile from Thebes, that these preparations were made by them.