Methymnaeans
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Methymna, the one Lesbian city that stays loyal to Athens and fights against the other Mytilenaean-led towns.
Immediately after the invasion of the Peloponnesians, all Lesbos, with the exception of Methymna, revolted from the Athenians;
When the ambassadors from Athens came back without having effected any thing, the Mytilenaeans commenced hostilities, and all the rest of Lesbos excepting [the people of] Methymna;
When they had retired, the Methymnaeans marched against Antissa;
Hellenica
The inhabitants of Methymna in Lesbos, first resisting Callicratidas under an Athenian-backed government, then spared and later mobilized as his allies.
And when the Methymnaeans refused to surrender,—for there was an Athenian garrison in the place and those who had control of the government were partisans of Athens, —Callicratidas attacked the city and captured it by storm.
As for the land side, he summoned the Methymnaeans to come to his aid with their entire force and brought over his army from Chios;
and when his allies urged him to sell into slavery the Methymnaeans as well as the Athenians, he said that while he was commander no Greek should be enslaved if he could help it.