Lesbians
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Mytilenaeans · the Lesbians
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The Histories
People of Lesbos who transported the fleeing Paeonians to Doriscus on their journey back to Paeonia.
The Paeonians would not consent to this, but were brought from Chios by the Chians to Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land to Paeonia.
They manned eight triremes, and sailed with Histiaeus to Byzantium;
But the Lesbians, seeing their neighbors fleeing, did the same as the Samians;
History of the Peloponnesian War
The general population of Lesbos, subjected to a new cleruchy arrangement after the revolt was suppressed.
with whom the Lesbians having agreed to pay in money two mince a year for each portion, farmed the land themselves.
While he was there, ambassadors from the Lesbians came to him, wishing to revolt again.
And when certain Lesbians made offers of revolt, Astyochus urged to Pedaritus and the Chians, that they ought to go with their ships, and effect the revolt of Lesbos;