Milesians
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The Histories
Inhabitants of Miletus who resisted Lydian invasion for eleven years under Thrasybulus
Miletus, offering to make a truce with Thrasybulus and the Milesians during his rebuilding of the temple.
so presently the Lydians and Milesians ended the war and agreed to be friends and allies, and Alyattes built not one but two temples of Athena at Assesos, and recovered from his illness.
The Milesians add that Periander son of Cypselus, a close friend of the Thrasybulus who then was sovereign of Miletus, learned what reply the oracle had given to Alyattes, and sent a messenger to tell Thrasybulus so that his friend, forewarned, could make his plans accordingly.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Miletus, whose dispute with Samos over Priene prompted their appeal to Athens and so triggered the Samian War.
and the Milesians being worsted in the war went to the Athenians, and raised an outcry against the Samians;
The Athenians therefore, having made the land with their armament, with ten of their ships and two thousand heavy-armed of the Milesians, took the town on the coast called Scandea;
The Athenians in the same summer made an expedition against Cythera, with sixty ships, two thousand heavy-armed, and a few cavalry, taking with them also from amongst the allies the Milesians and some others;
Anabasis
People of Miletus who fear Cyrus' fidelity to their exiles.
and the reason why the Milesians feared him was, that he would not prove false to the exiles from their city.
The Sinopeans dwell, indeed, in Paphlagonia, but are colonists of the Milesians.
Nicomachean Ethics
Inhabitants of Miletus, cited in Demodocus's verse as acting foolishly despite not being fools.
just as Demodocus wrote of the people of Miletus — Milesians are no fools,’tis true But yet they act as fools would do.
Stromata
The people of Miletus, cleansed of plague by Branchus's ritual hymn.
" And Apollodorus of Cercyra says that these verses were uttered aloud by Branchus the seer, when he was cleansing the Milesians from a plague.
Hellenica
The citizens of Miletus whom Callicratidas addresses in assembly and who subsequently vote him funds for the war.
When he had said this, many arose, particularly those who were accused of opposing him, and in alarm proposed a grant of money, offering private contributions as well.
and after despatching triremes from there to Lacedaemon to get money, he gathered the Milesians in assembly and spoke as follows: