Acanthus
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Acanthians
in the texts
Hellenica
City near Olynthus whose representatives seek Lacedaemonian intervention.
Thereupon Cleigenes of Acanthus spoke as follows:
Again, we left ambassadors both of the Athenians and of the Boeotians already there.
We, then, men of Lacedaemon and of the allied states, report that such are the conditions there;
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.
The Acanthians hold Artachaees a hero, and sacrifice to him, calling upon his name.
While Xerxes was at Acanthus, it happened that Artachaees, overseer of the digging of the canal, died of an illness.
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.
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;
The same summer, Brasidas, accompanied by the Chalcidians, immediately made an expedition against Acanthus, the colony of the Andrians, a little before the vintage.
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.