Acanthus
place · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Acanthians
in the texts
Hellenica
City near Olynthus whose representatives seek Lacedaemonian intervention.
Then there came ambassadors to Lacedaemon from Acanthus and Apollonia, which are the largest of the cities in the neighbourhood of Olynthus.
They said it was better, therefore, that while this expedition was gathering, a commander should set out with all possible speed with a force from Lacedaemon, of such size as could take the field quickly, and likewise from the other states;
As for ourselves, however, men of Lacedaemon, we desire to live under the laws of our fathers and to be citizens of our own city;
Against Phormio
The place to which Lampis illegally diverted and sold a shipload of grain that he had been permitted to export duty-free to Athens.
and having loaded a large vessel with grain, carried it to Acanthus and there disposed of it,—he, who had made himself the partner of Phormio here with our money.
The Histories
Greek town on the march route where Xerxes is hosted warmly, honors the townsmen, and where his overseer Artachaees dies and is afterward worshiped as a hero.
When Xerxes came to Acanthus, he declared the Acanthians his guests and friends, and gave them Median clothing, praising them for the zeal with which he saw them furthering his campaign, and for what he heard of the digging of the canal.
Upon leaving Acanthus, Xerxes sent his ships on their course away from him, giving orders to his generals that the fleet should await him at Therma, the town on the Thermaic gulf which gives the gulf its name, for this, he learned, was his shortest way.
From there, keeping on his left hand the gulf off Poseideion, Xerxes traversed the plain of Syleus (as they call it), passing by the Greek town of Stagirus, and came to Acanthus.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A colony of the Andrians on the Thrace-ward coast, won over to revolt from Athens by Brasidas's speech.
The same summer, Brasidas, accompanied by the Chalcidians, immediately made an expedition against Acanthus, the colony of the Andrians, a little before the vintage.
and because Brasidas had urged alluring arguments, and at the same time through fear for their fruit, the majority determined to revolt from the Athenians;
Nevertheless, through fear for their fruit, which was still out, when the commons were urged by Brasidas to admit him alone, and to decide after hearing him, they admitted him.