Antissa
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Against Aristocrates
Place to which Iphicrates withdrew.
He reduced Iphicrates to such helplessness that he withdrew to Antissa, and afterwards to Drys, and lived there;
On the Treaty with Alexander
Lesbian city cited as having tyrants whose rule was treated as an outrage.
But it is a ridiculous principle to expel the Lesbian tyrants on the ground that their rule is an outrage—I mean the tyrants of Antissa and Eresus, who established themselves before the agreement—and yet to imagine that it is a matter of indifference at Messene, where the same harsh system prevails.