Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Messene” in book 1, chapter 10 of Polybius, Histories:

...n citizens to death, with the extreme penalties of the law, for having broken faith with the people of Rhegium: and now so soon afterwards to assist the Mamertines, who had done precisely the same to Messene as well as Rhegium, involved a breach of equity very hard to justify. But while fully alive to these points, they yet saw that Carthaginian aggrandisement was not confined to Libya, but had embrace...
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Messene (Greece) 452 100 0 0 0 user votes

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