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Polybius, Histories | 68 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Strabo, Geography | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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T. Maccius Plautus, Casina, or The Stratagem Defeated (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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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 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
The Messenians together with the Helots
at first advanced against the city of Sparta,
assuming that they would take it because there would be no one to defend it; but when they
heard that the survivors were drawn up in a body with Archidamus the king and were ready for
the struggle on behalf of their native land, they gave up this plan, and seizing a stronghold
in Messenia they made it their base of operations and
from there continued to overrun Laconia. And the Spartans, turning for help to the Athenians, received from them
an army; and they gathered troops as well from the rest of their allies and thus became able to
meet their enemy on equal terms. At the outset they were much superior to the enemy, but at a
later time, when a suspicion arose that the Athenians were about to go over to the Messenians,
they broke the alliance with them, stating as their reason that in the other allies they had
sufficient men to meet the impending