Abydus
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Abydenes
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Hellenica
A city on the Hellespont, site of a long naval battle and later of an Athenian expedition against Pharnabazus.
They also made an expedition against Abydus;
Thereupon the Peloponnesians took to flight in the direction of Abydus;
And the Athenians set out against him and did battle, along the strand near Abydus, from morning till late afternoon.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Colony of Miletus on the Hellespont that revolts to Sparta and resists Athenian recapture.
After this, immediately that Dercyllidas had proceeded thither by land from Miletus, Abydus on the Hellespont revolted to him and Pharnabazus, as also did Lampsacus two days later.
Immediately at the commencement of the spring of the following summer, Dercyllidas, a Spartan, was sent with a small force by land to the Hellespont, to effect the revolt of Abydus, which is a colony of the Milesians;
and when the Lampsacenes came out against him, having defeated them in battle, taken at the first assault their city, which was unfortified, and made spoil of implements and slaves, (though he restored the freemen to their dwellings,) he proceeded against Abydus When they did not capitulate, and he was unable to take the place by assault, he sailed away to the coast opposite Abydus, and appointed …
Against Aristocrates
Hellespontine city from which Charidemus crossed to Sestus, associated with anti-Athenian actors.
it was from Abydus to Sestus.
for he crossed from Abydus, a place always hostile to you, and the base from which Sestus was captured, to Sestus, which was in the possession of Cotys.
Yet you must not imagine that either the Abydenes or the people at Sestus would have admitted him, after that letter had been sent to you, if they had not been aware that he was cheating you, or if they had not been actually parties to the deception.
Against Eubulides
A city on the Hellespont where the speaker's maternal cousin Ctesibius was killed while serving under Thrasybulus.
To Amytheon’s sister, who married Diodorus of Halae, was born a son Ctesibius, and he was killed in Abydus while serving in the campaign with Thrasybulus.