Phoenician fleet
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Phoenician ships · ninety ships · the Phoenician fleet · the king's fleet
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1 expressionThe Phoenician fleet1 mention
Concerning the Team of Horses (Greek)
furthermore, ninety ships had come from Phoenicia to Aspendus and were prepared to aid the Lacedaemonians.
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Concerning the Team of Horses
The fleet of ninety Phoenician ships gathered to aid Sparta, which Alcibiades the elder turned back.
furthermore, ninety ships had come from Phoenicia to Aspendus and were prepared to aid the Lacedaemonians.
Having thrown in his lot with you, he persuaded Tissaphernes not to furnish the Lacedaemonians with money, checked the defection of your allies, distributed pay from his own resources to the soldiers, restored political power to the people, reconciled the citizens, and turned back the Phoenician fleet.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A large Phoenician naval force repeatedly promised by Tissaphernes but never actually delivered to either side.
and that he would bring the Phoenician ships which were now at Aspendus to join the Athenians, instead of the Peloponnesians;
but they would run the risk of being worn out by delay, while waiting for the Phoenician fleet—an idle pretence, and not a reality.
And after this, Tissaphernes prepared to bring up the Phoenician fleet, as had been agreed, and all other things which he had promised;