Naxians
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the Naxians · Naxian exiles
in the texts
The Histories
Exiled Naxian nobles who instigate the Persian-backed expedition against their own island, whose besieged compatriots successfully resist it after being forewarned.
Now the Naxians had no suspicion at all that it was they who were to be attacked by that force.
When the Naxians came to Miletus, they asked Aristagoras if he could give them enough power to return to their own country.
When their enemies had brought their ships over from Chios to Naxos, it was a fortified city that they attacked, and for four months they besieged it.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Naxos, who successfully repel the Messanian invasion with Sicel help.
The first day, having driven the Naxians within their walls, they ravaged the land, and the next day sailed round with their fleet, and did the same in the direction of the river Acesines, while with their land-forces they made their incursion towards the city.
and when the Naxians saw them, they took courage, and cheering themselves with the belief that the Leontines and other Grecian allies were coming to their aid, made a sudden sally from the town, and fell upon the Messanians, and having routed them, slew more than a thousand, the rest having a miserable return homeward;
On the Naxians' receiving them within their city, they coasted on to Catana;