Exiles
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exiles · exiles of the Mytilenaeans · the Exiles · the island tribes · the other Lesbians · those who come back · those who live abroad in exile · those who return
spoken of as
2 expressionsIsland tribes of the Red Sea“"Exiles"”1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
The island tribes that came from the Red Sea, and from the islands where the king settles those who are called Exiles, wore dress and armor very similar to the Median.
Mytilenaeans and other Lesbians“exiles”1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
And their design was to liberate both the other
in the texts
On the Treaty with Alexander
Persons banished from states whose armed departures are restricted by the peace.
For it is laid down that it shall not be lawful for exiles to set out, bearing arms, from the states which are parties to the peace, with hostile intent against any of the states included in the peace;
The Histories
Islanders relocated by the king from the Red Sea, called "Exiles," equipped similarly to the Medes, commanded by Mardontes, who later died at the battle of Mykale.
The island tribes that came from the Red Sea, and from the islands where the king settles those who are called Exiles, wore dress and armor very similar to the Median.
To the Rulers of the Mytilenaeans
People expelled from Mytilene, some already restored and others, including Agenor's family, still living away from home.
That I may not justly seem foolish and irksome I make this explanation.
The sons of Aphareus, my grandsons, who were instructed in music by Agenor, have asked me to write to you and beg that, since you have restored some of the other exiles, you will also allow Agenor, his father, and his brothers to return home.
I think you have been well advised both in becoming reconciled to your fellow-citizens and, while trying to reduce the number of exiles, in increasing that of the participants in public life and also in imitating Athens in handling the sedition.
To Timotheus
People previously banished from Methymna and restored by Cleommis.
I hear that Cleommis, who in Methymna holds this royal power, is noble and wise in all his actions, and that so far from putting any of his subjects to death, or exiling them, or confiscating their property, or injuring them in any other respect, he provides great security for his fellow-citizens, and restores the exiles, returning to those who come back their lost possessions, and in each case re …
History of the Peloponnesian War
Exiled partisans of Mytilene and the other Lesbian cities who campaign on the Asian mainland to recover territory formerly held by Mytilene.
And their design was to liberate both the other
Moreover, the exiles of the the Mytilenaeans and the other Lesbians, setting out most of them from the continent, and having taken into their pay an auxiliary force from the Peloponnese, and raised troops from the neighbourhood, took Rhoeteum, but restored it without injury on the receipt of 2000 Phocaean staters.
having fortified which, (for there were great facilities for building ships there, as there was a supply of timber, with Ida close at hand,) and sallying from it, as they easily might, with resources of every other kind, they purposed to ravage Lesbos, which lay near, and to subdue the Aeolian towns on the mainland.