Phliasians
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the Phliasians · Phliasian · Phliasian horsemen · people of Phlius · state of Phlius · the Phliasian country · the Phliasian side
in the texts
Hellenica
People of Phlius who decline to join the Lacedaemonian army, citing a holy truce.
The Phliasians, however, would not join them;
Agesilaus, then, was occupied with these things.
Now Agesilaus had already gone beyond the time for which the food-supply in Phlius was said to suffice;
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Phlius, who shelter Argive exiles, are raided by Argos, and later successfully ambush an Argive invading force.
After this, the Argives, in their turn, marched against the Phliasian country, and laid it waste before they returned, because they harboured their exiles;
About the same time an Argive force invaded the Phliasian territory, and being intercepted by an ambuscade of the Phliasians and their allies, were cut off to the number of eighty.
above them were the Corinthians, Phliasians, and Pellenians;
On Organization
Exiled people whom Athens resolved to aid against their killers.
in favour of the Phliasians, when they were exiled the other day, that you should help them and not give them up to their murderers, and should call for volunteers from the Peloponnese.
Archidamus
A Greek people invoked as a contrast to Lacedaemon.
No one, for example, would reproach Epidaurians or Corinthians or Phliasians if they thought of nothing else than to escape destruction and save their own lives;
On the Peace
The people of Phlius, cited as besieged victims.
Did they not rob the Eleans of part of their territory, did they not lay waste the land of the Corinthians, did they not disperse the Mantineans from their homes, did they not reduce the Phliasians by siege, and did they not invade the country of the Argives, never ceasing from their depredations upon the rest of the world and so bringing upon themselves the disaster at Leuctra?