Phrygians
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Stromata
Phrygian people credited with several inventions, including augury by birds and the flute.
And the Idaean Dactyls were Phrygians and barbarians.
The Phrygians were the first to observe the flights of birds, and the Tuscans, neighbours of Italy, perfected the art of inspecting victims.
For the Phrygians call water bedy, as Orpheus too:
Orations
A people used as a comparative example of dishonor, invoked to suggest how low the Greeks might have fallen.
For on account of those who so treat their own fatherlands, as some say truly, nothing prevented all the Greeks from having long ago become more dishonoured than the Phrygians or Thracians.
For instance, both the Indian and the Spartan feel pain when wounded or burned, and so do the Phrygian and the Lydian;
And again, if it lay in stones of fine hue and varied veining, then the city of the Teians or the Carystians, or of certain Egyptians and Phrygians, among whom the very mountains are variegated—indeed I hear that the most ancient of the mountains are of that same rock—and yet they are no better off, no more fortunate, than men utterly humble and wretched.
The Histories
People of Phrygia; Adrastus belongs to their royal house
” “O King,” the man answered, “I am the son of Gordias the son of Midas, and my name is Adrastus;
Now while Croesus was occupied with the marriage of his son, a Phrygian of the royal house came to Sardis, in great distress and with unclean hands.
Reasoning from this, the Egyptians acknowledged that the Phrygians were older than they.
De Anima
A people mocked by comic poets for timidity, cited as an example of national character.
The comic poets mock the Phrygians as timid;
But we find, even in the Commentaries on Human Antiquities, that the human race has gradually grown beyond measure, while the Aborigines, or wanderers, or exiles, or any glory-seekers occupy lands — as the Scythians occupied the Parthian lands, as the Temenidae the Peloponnese, as the Athenians Asia, as the Phrygians Italy and the Phoenicians Africa — while there are also solemn migrations, which …
Cyclops
The Trojans and their allies, referenced as the enemy whose humbling was the purpose of the Trojan War
and we did not permit Phrygians to put such an intolerable reproach on Hellas.
Hecuba
The people of Troy (also called Phrygians), whose city's fall and destruction underlie the entire action of the window.
Just so, when he heard of the Phrygians’ disaster.
Now my father, when Phrygia’s capital was threatened with destruction by the spear of Hellas, took alarm and conveyed me secretly from the land of Troy to Polymestor’s house, his guest-friend in Thrace, who sows these fruitful plains of Chersonese, curbing by his might a nation delighting in horses.
Helen
The Trojan people, called Phrygians, destroyed in the war fought ostensibly over Helen.
Miserable Phrygians, and all the Achaeans!
Because of you, the Phrygians have been destroyed.
Iphigenia in Aulis
The Trojans/Phrygians, the barbarian people against whom the Greek expedition is directed and whose defeat Iphigenia's sacrifice is meant to secure.
Lead me away, the destroyer of Ilium’s town and the Phrygians;
And it is right, mother, that Hellenes should rule barbarians, but not barbarians Hellenes, those being slaves, while these are free.
Some mad desire possesses the army of Hellas to sail at once to the land of the barbarians, and put a stop to the rape of wives from Hellas, and they will slay my daughter in Argos as well as you and me, if I disregard the goddess’s commands.
Iliad
Trojan-allied people from Askania led by Phorkys and Askanios.
Phorkys, again, and noble Askanios led the Phrygians from the far country of Askania, and both were eager for the fray.
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
The Phrygians are the people Aphrodite claims as her own in her invented mortal identity.
Moreover, send a messenger quickly to the swift-horsed Phrygians, to tell my father and my sorrowing mother;
The Rights of War and Peace
People harmed by the flooding caused by Ariarathes' actions.
” When Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia had wantonly obstructed the channel of the river Melas, which discharges itself into the Euphrates, the swell of waters bursting the mounds, the Euphrates rose to such a height, as to occasion excessive damage to the Cappadocians, the Galatians, and the Phrygians.
Cratylus
Neighboring people whose language shares words with Greek, cited as evidence that certain terms like fire are foreign borrowings.
for it is difficult to connect it with the Greek language, and besides, the Phrygians have the same word, only slightly altered.
Ad Nationes
People held, per the Psammetichus fable, to be the first nation because of the infant's first uttered word.
the Phrygians are thenceforth held to be the first race.
De Pallio
People cited as ancestral to the Romans in the migration catalogue.
The Scythians overflow the Persians, the Phoenicians belch forth into Africa, the Phrygians bring forth the Romans, the Chaldaean seed is brought up into Egypt;
Cyropaedia
People incorporated into Cyrus's expanding military and imperial order.
On the way to Babylon he subdued Greater Phrygia and Cappadocia and reduced the Arabians to submission.
And Hystaspas, leaving strong garrisons of Persians upon the citadels, went back with his own army reinforced with many Phrygian horsemen and peltasts.
Besides, Cyrus had given Adusius instructions to join Hystaspas and bring with them armed those Phrygians who had voluntarily taken their side, but to take their horses and arms away from those who had shown fight, and to make all such follow, armed with nothing but slings.