Cephallenians
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the Cephallenians · Cephallênians · Cranians · Paleans · Pronaeans · Samaeans · foremost men among the Cephallênians · the Cephallênians
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Odyssey
The people of Odysseus's realm among whom Philoitios was made a stockman.
for my good master, who made me his stockman when I was quite young in the dêmos of the Cephallênians, and now his cattle are countless;
now, moreover, on his return he has been killing all the foremost men among the Cephallênians.
Laertes answered, "Would, by Father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, that I were the man I was when I ruled among the Cephallênians, and took Nericum, that strong fortress on the foreland.
Stromata
Inhabitants of Cephallenia who worship Epiphanes as a god.
and the Cephallenians, gathering at the temple at the new moon, offer sacrifice to celebrate his apotheosis as his birthday, pour libations, feast, and sing hymns.
Orations
Inhabitants of Cephallenia, subjects of Odysseus.
And on this account the youth of the Cephallenians turned to the wooing of Penelope and the plundering of his goods.
Iliad
Achaean contingent led by Odysseus, found standing still awaiting other columns to engage first.
Near him also tarried cunning Odysseus, with his sturdy Cephallenians round him;
History of the Peloponnesian War
The four peoples of the island of Cephallenia; they joined the Athenian confederacy without a fight, though the Cranians later deceived and ambushed a Corinthian force that landed among them.
Cephallenia lies opposite Acarnania and Leucas, and consists of four states, the Paleans, Cranians, Samaeans, and Pronaeans.
Having landed, as they coasted along, on Cephallenia, and made a descent on the territory of the Cranians, they were deceived by them after an arrangement that they had come to, and lost some of their men in an unexpected attack of the Cranians;