Aetolians
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the Aetolians · Apodotians · Borniensians · Calliensians · Eurytanians · Ophioneans · an Aetolian · ancient Aetolians
in the texts
Iliad
A people whose bravest warrior, Periphas, is killed and stripped by Ares.
He was in the act of stripping huge Periphas, son of Ochesios and bravest of the Aetolians.
The Curetes and the Aetolians were fighting and killing one another round Calydon - the Aetolians defending the city and the Curetes trying to destroy it.
Thereon the elders of the Aetolians besought Meleager;
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek confederation restricted from sending embassies to Rome.
For this reason the Romans sent a declaration to the Aetolians, that they should send no embassy, but with the permission of their general, and Perseus was not allowed to send one to Rome, but to Licinius.
A declaration to this effect was made by the Romans to the Aetolians, and, on another occasion, the Vejentian ambassadors were ordered to leave Rome, with a menace, if they refused to comply, of being treated in the same manner as the Roman ambassadors had been treated by their king Tolumnius, who had put them to death.
” On this score, Polybius excuses the Acarnanians, for having neglected, when threatened with impending danger themselves, to fulfil the terms of a defensive treaty made with the Greeks against the Aetolians.
On the Commonwealth
Greek people cited alongside the Cretans as regarding brigandage as honorable.
And the institutions of life differ so much that the Cretans and the Aetolians think brigandage honourable, the Lacedaemonians used to claim that all the fields were theirs which they could reach with a spear.
Funeral Oration
The people of Aetolia, described as won over by Leosthenes as willing allies.
The Thessalians, Phocians, Aetolians, and all the other peoples of the region, he made his allies, bringing under his control, by their own consent, the men whom Philip and Alexander gloried in controlling against their wish.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Aetolian peoples, organized in scattered unfortified tribal villages, who inflict a major defeat on Demosthenes's Athenian force and later seek Peloponnesian support against Naupactus.
And they advised him to attack in the first place the Apodotians, next the Ophioneans, and after them the Eurytanians, which are the largest division of the nation, speaking, it is said, the most unintelligible language, and being cannibals;
But the Aetolians were both aware or these preparations when he first formed his designs against them, and when the army had invaded their country they came to the rescue with a great force, all of them, so that even the most distant of the Ophionians, who stretch towards the Melian Gulf, the Borniensians and Calliensians, joined in bringing aid.
The same summer the Aetolians, having before [the invasion of their country] sent as envoys to Corinth and Lacedaemon, Tolophus the Ophionean, Boriades the Eurytanian, and Tisander the Apodotian, persuaded them to send them an army to attack Naupactus, because it had brought the Athenians against them.