Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Mysians

    group · 6 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    the meanest of the Mysians · the staunch Mysians

    in the texts

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Trojan-allied people led by Chromis and Ennomos.

    Chromis, and Ennomos the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aiakos in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.
    chapter 2
    Now when Zeus had thus brought Hektor and the Trojans to the ships, he left them to their never-ending toil [ ponos], and turned his keen eyes away, looking elsewhere towards the horse-breeders of Thrace, the Mysians, fighters at close quarters, the noble Hippemolgoi, who live on milk, and the Abians, the most just [ dikaioi] of humankind.
    chapter 13
    Ajax son of Telamon was first to wound Hyrtios son of Gyrtios, leader of the staunch Mysians.
    chapter 14

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    People associated with Orontas' desertion and with later campaigns by Cyrus.

    For example, he was once at war with the Pisidians and Mysians and commanded in person an expedition into their territories;
    chapter 1
    Did you not afterwards, although, as you yourself admit, you had suffered no wrong at my hands, desert me for the Mysians, and do all the harm you could to my territory?
    chapter 1
    I know that the Mysians are troublesome to you, and I believe that with the force I have I could make them your submissive servants;
    chapter 2

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    A people invoked as a dismissive comparison for the degraded present-day inhabitants of ruined Greek cities.

    since the very inhabitants and those who manage public affairs one would not even call descendants of Mysians;
    oration 31

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    People of Mysia who suffered from the boar on Olympus and appealed to Croesus for help

    “O King, a great monster of a boar has appeared in the land, who is destroying our fields;
    chapter 1
    About this same time a great monster of a boar appeared on the Mysian Olympus, who would come off that mountain and ravage the fields of the Mysians.
    chapter 1
    But I will send chosen Lydians, and all the huntsmen, and I will tell those who go to be as eager as possible to help you to drive the beast out of the country.
    chapter 1

    TheaetetusClassical · Greek

    Proverbial ethnic group invoked in a common saying about an unremarkable person, used by Socrates to illustrate a thought too generic to pick out any one individual.

    Can this thought make me think of Theaetetus any more than of Theodorus or of the meanest of the Mysians, as the saying is?
    theaetetus

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Outpost guards of Pharnabazus's camp, identified as Mysians, killed in Herippidas's night raid.

    And when at daybreak he fell upon the encampment of Pharnabazus, many of his outposts, who were Mysians, were slain, the troops themselves scattered in flight, and the camp was captured, and with it many drinking-cups and other articles such as a man like Pharnabazus would naturally have, and besides these things a great deal of baggage and many baggage animals.
    chapter 9