Falsafa

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

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    Paeonians

    group · 4 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    the Paeonians · Paeonian · Paeonian archers · Paeonian horsemen

    in the texts

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    A Thracian people first victorious over Perinthus by oracle, later conquered and deported to Asia by Megabazus at Darius's order.

    There were two Paeonians, Pigres and Mantyes, who themselves desired to be rulers of their countrymen.
    chapter 5
    ” Accordingly, the Paeonians set upon the Perinthians and won a great victory, leaving few of their enemies alive.
    chapter 5
    The Paeonians, learning that their towns had been taken, straightway disbanded, each going his own way, and surrendered themselves to the Persians.
    chapter 5

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Trojan-allied archers from Amydon led by Pyraikhmes.

    Pyraikhmes led the Paeonian archers from distant Amydon, by the broad waters of the river Axios, the fairest that flow upon the earth.
    chapter 2
    He hit Pyraikhmes who had led his Paeonian horsemen from the Amydon and the broad waters of the river Axios;
    chapter 16
    Then he went in chase of the Paeonians, who were fleeing along the bank of the river in panic when they saw their leader slain by the hands of the son of Peleus.
    book 19

    First OlynthiacClassical · Greek

    A people associated with Philip's campaigns and with a desire for freedom.

    His campaigns against Illyrians and Paeonians and King Arybbas and any others that might be mentioned, I pass over in silence.
    first olynthiac
    But surely we must assume that your Paeonian or Illyrian or any other of these tribes would prefer freedom and independence to slavery.
    first olynthiac

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    A regional people, partly subject to Sitalces and partly independent, whose territory borders the invasion route and has been partly absorbed by Macedonia.

    while in Paeonia they acquired a narrow strip of territory along the river Axius, stretching down to Pella and the sea-coast;
    chapter 2
    In crossing this mountain from the Odrysians, they had the Paeonians on their right, and on their left the Sintians and Maedians;
    chapter 2
    And these were the last people in his dominion, for at the Graaeans and Laeaeans, both of them Paeonian tribes, and at the river Strymon, which flows from Mount Scomius through their country, his empire terminated on the side of the Paeonians, who from this point were independent.
    chapter 2