Paphlagonians
group · 4 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Paphlagonian · Paphlagonian warriors · brave Paphlagonians · their cavalry · their more than one hundred and twenty thousand infantry
in the texts
Iliad
Trojan-allied people from Enetae commanded by Pylaimenes.
The Paphlagonians were commanded by stout-hearted Pylaimenes from Enetae, where the mules run wild in herds.
They killed Pylaimenes peer of Ares, leader of the Paphlagonian warriors.
The brave Paphlagonians tended him with all due care;
Anabasis
People of Paphlagonia, politically relevant to Sinope and the Greek route.
for I am acquainted with both the country of the Paphlagonians and their power.
As for provisions, they got them partly from Paphlagonia and partly from the estates of the Cotyorites;
and if you continue to do them, you force us to make friends with Corylas and the Paphlagonians and whomever else we can.
Cyropaedia
People invited to join the hostile expedition but not present.
The Carians, however, and Cilicians and Paphlagonians, they say, have not joined the expedition, although they have been invited to do so.
Hellenica
Allied cavalry and light troops from Paphlagonia under Otys, who join and later desert Agesilaus's army.
He also, by the persuasion of Spithridates, left behind for Agesilaus a thousand horsemen and two thousand peltasts.
And Herippidas, eager to achieve a brilliant exploit, asked from Agesilaus hoplites to the number of two thousand, as many peltasts, and for horsemen, those of Spithridates, the Paphlagonians, and as many of the Greeks as he could persuade to join him.
They, however, would not stand being so treated, but, feeling that they had been wronged and dishonoured, packed up and went off during the night to Ariaeus at Sardis, putting their trust in Ariaeus because he also had revolted from the King and made war upon him.