Pylians
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in the texts
Iliad
The people of Pylos, ruled by Nestor.
Then stood up smooth-tongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey.
With this he left them and went onward to Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, who was marshaling his men and urging them on, in company with Pelagon, Alastor, Chromios, Haimon, and Bias shepherd of his people.
Would, by father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, that I were still young and strong as when the Pylians and Arcadians were gathered in fight by the rapid river Keladon under the walls of Pheia, and round about the waters of the river Iardanos.
Odyssey
The inhabitants of Pylos, gathered in nine guilds to sacrifice to Poseidon when Telemakhos arrives.
thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you.
Now the people of Pylos were gathered on the sea shore to offer sacrifice of black bulls to Poseidon lord of the Earthquake.
Hellenica
Inhabitants of Pylus who are attacked, captured, and in some cases executed or sold by the Eleans.
And when the horsemen of the Eleans, as they rode along, caught sight of the Pylians, they did not delay, but attacked at once, and they killed some of them, while others fled for refuge to a hill;