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Who are the ‘Men repulsed by slings’?
Men from Eretria used to inhabit the island of
Corcyra. But Charicrates sailed thither from Corinth
with an army and defeated them in war; so the
Eretrians embarked in their ships and sailed back
home. Their fellow-citizens, however, having learned
of the matter before their arrival, barred their return
to the country and prevented them from disembarking by showering upon them missiles from slings.
Since the exiles were unable either to persuade or to
overcome their fellow-citizens, who were numerous
and inexorable, they sailed to Thrace and occupied
a territory in which, according to tradition, Methon,
the ancestor of Orpheus, had formerly lived. So the
Eretrians named their city Methonê, but they were
also named by their neighbours the ‘Men repulsed
by slings.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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