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Aeschines, On the Embassy, section 116 (search)
When I had read all this, I solemnly declared that in my opinion it was not right that we should overlook the fact that the cities in Boeotia were lying in ruins.See on Aeschin. 2.104. To prove that they were Amphictyonic cities and thus protected by the oaths, I enumerated twelve tribes which shared the shrine: the Thessalians, Boeotians (not the Thebans only), Dorians, Ionians, Perrhaebi, Magnetes, Dolopians, Locrians, Oetaeans, Phthiotians, Malians, and Phocians. And I showed that each of these tribes has an equal vote, the greatest equal to the least: that the delegate from Dorion and Cytinion has equal authority with the Lacedaemonian delegates, for each tribe casts two votes; again, that of the Ionian delegates those from Eretria and Priene have equal authority with those from Athens and the rest in the same
The inhabitants of Priene recount that BiasOf Priene, and another of the Seven Wise
Men. ransomed from robbers some maidens of distinguished families of Messenia and reared them in honour, as if they were his own
daughters. And after some time, when their kinsfolk came in search of them, he gave the maidens
over to them, asking for neither the cost of their rearing nor the price of their ransom, but
on the contrary giving them many presents from his own possessions. The maidePriene, and another of the Seven Wise
Men. ransomed from robbers some maidens of distinguished families of Messenia and reared them in honour, as if they were his own
daughters. And after some time, when their kinsfolk came in search of them, he gave the maidens
over to them, asking for neither the cost of their rearing nor the price of their ransom, but
on the contrary giving them many presents from his own possessions. The maidens, therefore,
loved him as a father, both because they had lived in his home and because he had done so much
for them, so that, even when they had departed together with their own families to their native
land, they did not forget the kindness they had received in a foreign country. Some Messenian fishermen, when casting
their net, brought up nothing at all except a brazen tripod, which bore the inscription, "To
the wisest." And they took the tripod out of the sea and g
441 B.C.When
Timocles was archon in Athens, the Romans elected
as consuls Lar Herminius and Titus Stertinius Structor. In this year the Samians went to war
with the Milesians because of a quarrel over Priene, and when they saw that the Athenians were favouring the Milesians, they
revolted from the Athenians, who thereupon chose Pericles as general and dispatched him with
forty ships against the Samians. And sailing forth against
Samos, Pericles got into the city and mastered it,
and then established a democracy in it. He exacted of the Samians eighty talents and took an
equal numberThuc. 1.115 says
fifty. of their young men as hostages, whom he put in the keeping of the Lemnians;
then, after having finished everything in a few days, he returned to Athens. But civil discord arose in Samos,
one party preferring the democracy and the other wanting an aristocracy, and the city was in
utter tumult. The opponents of the democracy
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 15 (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 27 (search)
Then, when he had subjugated all the Asiatic Greeks of the mainland and made them tributary to him, he planned to build ships and attack the islanders;
but when his preparations for shipbuilding were underway, either Bias of Priene or Pittacus of Mytilene (the story is told of both) came to Sardis and, asked by Croesus for news about Hellas, put an end to the shipbuilding by giving the following answer:
“O King, the islanders are buying ten thousand horse, intending to march to Sardis againstPriene or Pittacus of Mytilene (the story is told of both) came to Sardis and, asked by Croesus for news about Hellas, put an end to the shipbuilding by giving the following answer:
“O King, the islanders are buying ten thousand horse, intending to march to Sardis against you.” Croesus, thinking that he spoke the truth, said: “Would that the gods would put this in the heads of the islanders, to come on horseback against the sons of the Lydians!” Then the other answered and said:
“O King, you appear to me earnestly to wish to catch the islanders riding horses on the mainland, a natural wish. And what else do you suppose the islanders wished, as soon as they heard that you were building ships to attack them, than to catch Lydians on the seas, so as to be rev
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 142 (search)
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons.
For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought.
They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia,
have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities. There are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike, but the Samians have a language which is their own and no one else's. It is thus seen that
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 161 (search)
The Chians, then, surrendered Pactyes, and afterwards Mazares led his army against those who had helped to besiege Tabalus, and he enslaved the people of Priene, and overran the plain of the Maeandrus, giving it to his army to pillage and Magnesia likewise. Immediately after this he died of an illness.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 170 (search)
When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion, Bias of Priene, I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks:
for he advised them to put out to sea and sail all together to Sardo and then found one city for all Ionians: thus, possessing the greatest island in the world and ruling others, they would be rid of slavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in Ionia he could see lavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in Ionia he could see (he said) no hope of freedom for them.
This was the advice which Bias of Priene gave after the destruction of the Ionians; and that given before the destruction by Thales of Miletus, a Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the Ionians have one place of deliberation, and that it be in Teos (for that was the center of Ionia), and that the other cities be considered no more than demes.Thus Bias and Thales advised.