Messanians
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Messana · the Messanians
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History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Messana, defeated and forced to submit to the Athenians and their allies at Mylae.
Afterwards, on the attack of the Athenians and their allies, the Messanians too capitulated, giving hostages and all other securities.
Now there were two divisions of the Messanians in garrison at Mylae, and they had laid an ambush for the party coming from their ships.
while the Messanians, in the mean time, with all their forces made an expedition, at once by land and by sea, against Naxos, a Chalcidian town near their borders.