Oetaeans
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representatives from Oetaea · the Oetaeans
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History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek) · Hellenica (Greek)
and having turned in the direction of the Malian gulf, and carried off, on the ground of their long-standing enmity, the greater part of the exposed property of the Oetaeans, he exacted money for the ransom of it;
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Hellenica
The enemies of the Heracleot colonists and their Achaean allies-turned-betrayers, against whom the battle at Heracleia is fought.
At about the same time, also, the colonists of Heracleia, in Trachis, were betrayed by the Achaeans in a battle where both peoples were drawn up against their enemies, the Oetaeans, and as a result about seven hundred of the Heracleots perished, together with the Lacedaemonian governor, Labotas.
The city of the Lacedaemonians being thus minded, the ephors called out the ban and sent Lysander to Phocis with orders to report at Haliartus, bringing with him the Phocians themselves and also the Oetaeans, Heracleots, Malians, and Aenianians.
On the Embassy
An Amphictyonic people whose representatives are said to have urged severe punishment of Phocians.
the Thessalians, Boeotians (not the Thebans only), Dorians, Ionians, Perrhaebi, Magnetes, Dolopians, Locrians, Oetaeans, Phthiotians, Malians, and Phocians.
for when the representatives from Oetaea went so far as to say that they ought to cast the grown men over the cliffs, I brought the Phocians into the assembly of the Amphictyons and secured a hearing for them.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A people near the Malian gulf with a long-standing enmity toward Sparta, whose property Agis seizes for ransom.
and having turned in the direction of the Malian gulf, and carried off, on the ground of their long-standing enmity, the greater part of the exposed property of the Oetaeans, he exacted money for the ransom of it;