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    Eretrians

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    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    People of Eretria who sent five triremes to aid the Ionian revolt, motivated by a past debt owed to the Milesians rather than loyalty to Athens.

    The Athenians came with their twenty ships as well as five triremes of the Eretrians who came to the war to please not the Athenians but the Milesians themselves, thereby repaying their debt (for the Milesians had once been the allies of the Eretrians in the war against Chalcis, when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians against the Eretrians and Milesians).
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    others plotted treason in hope of winning advantages from the Persians.
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    They entered the city and plundered and burnt the temples, in revenge for the temples that were burnt at Sardis;
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    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Inhabitants of Eretria in Euboea who conspire with the Boeotians and seek Peloponnesian intervention.

    Being now therefore in possession of Oropus, the Eretrians came to Rhodes, inviting the Peloponnesians into Euboea.
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    There co-operated with them, also, some of the Eretrians and of the Oropians themselves, who were plotting the revolt of Euboea.
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    And now such of them as took refuge in the city of the Eretrians, as being friendly to them, fared worst of all, for they were butchered by them;
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    Against CtesiphonClassical · Greek

    People of Eretria involved in the transfer of contribution payments.

    a talent from Chalcis, paid over by Callias, a talent from Eretria, paid by the tyrant Cleitarchus, and a talent from Oreus.
    against ctesiphon
    And leading you off out of sight of his fraud, and suspending you on hopes, at last he gathers all up in a motion that you choose ambassadors to go to Eretria and beg the Eretrians—of course it was necessary to beg!
    against ctesiphon

    On the EmbassyClassical · Greek

    People of Eretria used as another example of changing Athenian policy.

    You fought against Themison and the Eretrians, and again you saved them.
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    CratylusClassical · Greek

    Inhabitants of Eretria whose differing pronunciation of the word for hardness is used to test whether rho and sigma express the same quality.

    You know, of course, that we call the same thing σκληρότης (hardness) which the Eretrians call σκληρότηρ?
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