Salaminians
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in the texts
The Histories
People of Salamis in Cyprus, Onesilus's home city, forming the core of the Cyprian battle line against the Persians.
The war-chariots of the Salaminians immediately followed their lead, and the Persians accordingly gained the upper hand over the Cyprians.
They drew up the best of the Salaminians and Solians against the Persians, leaving the remaining Cyprians to face the rest of the enemy's army.
Nicocles or the Cyprians
The people of Salamis whose kingdom is presented as restored to its rightful line.
and that, after his other descendants had lost the throne, my father, Evagoras, won it back again by undergoing the greatest dangers, and wrought so great a change that Phoenicians no longer rule over Salaminians, while they, to whom it belonged in the beginning, are today in possession of the kingdom?