Cnidians
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men of Cnidos · the inhabitants of Cnidus
in the texts
The Histories
Greek colonists of the Triopion peninsula near Caria who attempt to cut their land into an island and later submit peacefully to Harpagus.
Among those who inhabit it are certain Cnidians, colonists from Lacedaemon.
Then, as they themselves say, the priestess gave them this answer in iambic verse:
At this answer from the priestess, the Cnidians stopped their digging, and when Harpagus came against them with his army they surrendered to him without resistance.
The Rights of War and Peace
People among whom the Amimonians' temporary extraordinary authority existed.
Such was the power of the Amimonians among the Cnidians, and of the Dictators in the early periods of the Roman history, when there was no appeal to the people, from whence Livy says, the will of the Dictator was observed as a law.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Cnidus, a city that has revolted to the Peloponnesians and is attacked by Athens.
But the Athenians, having had notice of it, and having sailed out from Samos, seized the six ships that were keeping guard at Triopium, though the crews escaped from them.
but as they did not now do it so much damage, since the inhabitants had provided better defences during the night, and the crews which had escaped from the ships at Triopium had gone in to join them, they withdrew, and after ravaging the territory of the Cnidians, sailed back to Samos.
Having come from Cos to Cnidus by night, he was constrained by the advice of the Cnidians not to land his seamen, but to sail, just as he was, straightway against the twenty Athenian ships with which Charminus, one of the generals at Samos, was on the look-out for those seven and twenty ships that were approaching from the Peloponnese, and to join which Astyochus also was coasting along.