Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messene” in speech 1, section 62 of Lycurgus, Against Leocrates:
...ther early case, remember Troy. Who has not heard how, after being the greatest city of her time and ruling the whole of Asia, she was deserted for ever when once the Greeks had razed her? Think of Messene too, established again as a city five hundred years after from men of indiscriminate origin.
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