Byzantines

Do not the Athenians and Lacedaemonians and Byzantines and Mytilenaeans court these same men?

You hear of those Byzantines who dwell on the very Pontus, a little outside the mouth, fish sometimes falling out upon the land of themselves;

The Byzantines, inhabiting a most excellent land and a most fruitful sea.

"Atoeas, king of the Scythians, to the people of the Byzantines:

that the thing indicated is the disclosing of one thing, being itself one—as we say that being with child is an indication that one is no longer a virgin—while the thing taken by syllogism, being one, follows upon several—as, say, that Python betrayed the Byzantines, if so it chanced.

and he sailed to Byzantium as agent in his interest, when the Byzantines detained Phormio’s vessels, and he pleaded his cause against the Calchedonians, and he has thus flagrantly given false witness against me.

The Perinthians and Byzantines with their allies realize that his aim is to deal with them even as he dealt with the Olynthians before.

when furthermore the merchants and shipowners were about to sail out of the Pontus, and the Byzantines and Calchedonians and Cyzicenes were forcing their ships to put in to their ports because of the scarcity of grain in their own countries;

Consequently when my affairs were in the condition which I have described, and at the same time I was ordered by the general, Timomachus, to sail to Hieron to convoy the grain, though he provided no pay (word had been brought that the Byzantines and the Calchedonians were again bringing the ships into port and forcing them to unload their grain), I borrowed money from Archidemus of Anaphlystus, fi …

For we were charged by the Chians, Byzantines and Rhodians with plotting against them, and that was why they concerted the last war against us;

why is there no man in Byzantium to dissuade his country-men from seizing Chalcedon, which belongs to the King and was once held by you, while the Byzantines have no shadow of a claim to it?

Nay, even if there are others whom they distrust more than us, I think they will rather admit such within their walls than surrender their city to Philip—if indeed he does not forestall them by capturing it.

Now, if he waits for the Etesian winds to blow and marches to the siege of Byzantium, do you think that the Byzantines will remain in their present state of infatuation and will not call upon you and demand your help?

That through the Byzantines he had gained the mastery of the Hellespont, and control of the corn-supply of all Greece?

and that, instead of Philip taking Byzantium and holding the Hellespont, the Byzantines fought on our side against him.

wherever I was sent as your representative, I came away undefeated by Philip’s ambassador—from Thessaly, from Ambracia, from the Illyrians, from the kings of Thrace, from Byzantium, from every other place, and finally from Thebes;

In the same way by agreement with Philip we have waived our claim to Amphipolis, and we are permitting Cardia to be excepted from the rest of the Chersonese, the Carian to occupy the islands of Chios, Cos, and Rhodes, and the Byzantines to detain our ships in harbor, obviously because we think that the respite which the peace affords is more productive of advantages than wrangling and coming to bl …

Next, when the Thasians opened their harbor to the Byzantine war-galleys and to any pirates that chose to touch there, you ignored the incident, in spite of the clauses expressly denouncing such acts as hostile.

Our mutual hostility has become so acute that, when I wanted to convey my fleet to the Hellespont, I was compelled to escort it with my army through the Chersonese, because your settlers there were at war with us in accordance with the decree of Polycrates, backed up by your resolutions, and your general was inciting the Byzantines and publicly announcing that your orders were to make war on me, if he got the chance.

At the beginning of this oration I speak on the question of making peace with the Chians, the Rhodians, and the Byzantines;

I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind, and that we should adopt, not the covenants of peace which certain parties have recently drawn up, but those which we have entered into with the king of Persia and with the Lacedaemonians, which ordain that the Hellenes be independent, that the alien garrisons be …

The Byzantines also revolted with them.

The Byzantines also agreed to be subject as before.

the Byzantines, moreover, were in a factious state and hostile to one another.

As for Cleander, he had not sold one of them, but had even been caring for their sick out of pity and compelling the Byzantines to receive them in their houses;

As for the Byzantines, no sooner did they see the army bursting in by force than they fled from the market-place, some to their boats and others to their homes, while all who chanced to be indoors ran out, and some took to launching the ships-of-war in order to seek safety in them—all alike imagining that they were lost and the city captured.

While Pharnabazus was conducting this party, the Athenians were besieging Byzantium;

Now the Athenians, finding that they were unable to accomplish anything by force, persuaded some of the Byzantines to betray the city.

But when Clearchus had sailed away, those who wanted to betray the city of the Byzantines set about their work,—Cydon, Ariston, Anaxicrates, Lycurgus, and Anaxilaus.