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;
But when messengers arrived from Lacedaemon with word that the state left it to Agesilaus to decide as he thought best upon matters in Phlius, Agesilaus decided in this way — that fifty men from the restored exiles and fifty from the people at home should, in the first place, make inquiry to determine who ought justly to be left alive in the city and who ought to be put to death, and, secondly, sh …
Meanwhile the people of Phlius, partly because they had been commended by Agesipolis for giving him a large sum of money for his campaign and giving it speedily, partly because they thought that with Agesipolis abroad Agesilaus would not take the field against them, and that it never would happen that both the kings would be outside of Sparta at the same time, boldly refused to grant any of their …
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.
but the Phliasians in full force, as the army was posted in their country.
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?