Aetolians
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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.
Thereon the elders of the Aetolians besought Meleager;
Thus of his own inward motion he saved the city of the Aetolians;
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.
Nemean
Bronze-armored host led by Orestes in the migration that brought Peisander.
Truly, it was easy to recognize in him the ancient blood of Peisander of Sparta, who came from Amyclae with Orestes, leading here a bronze-armored host of Aetolians, and also the blending of his blood with that of his mother’s ancestor Melanippus, beside the stream of the Ismenus.
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.
for, when harassed by the bowmen, the Aetolians, being a light-armed force, retired.
Great numbers of the allies were slain, and of the Athenians themselves about a hundred and twenty heavy-armed—so many in number, and all in the prime of their youth.
When they had reached the Naupactian territory, and the Aetolians also had now come to their aid, they ravaged the country, and took the suburb of the capital, which was unfortified.