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HellenicaClassical · Greek

A region of Asia Minor where Mantitheus had been taken prisoner and where Alcibiades later collects money.

from there he sailed, with twenty of the ships, to the Ceramic Gulf, in Caria;

Thirty days later, however, Alcibiades, together with Mantitheus, who had been taken prisoner in Caria, provided themselves with horses and made their escape from Sardis by night to Clazomenae.

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Now Lysander, when Cyrus had thus given over to him all his money and set out, in response to the summons, to visit his sick father, distributed pay to his men and set sail to the Ceramic Gulf, in Caria.

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The HistoriesClassical · Greek

Region of southwestern Asia Minor conquered by Harpagus, home to the Carians, Cnidians, Pedaseans, and neighboring Greeks.

These were the only men near Caria who held out for long against Harpagus, and they gave him the most trouble;

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Neither the Carians nor any Greeks who dwell in this country did any thing notable before they were all enslaved by Harpagus.

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(The Carians are the only people whom we know who offer sacrifices to Zeus by this name.

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CyropaediaClassical · Greek

Region solicited by Assyria.

to both Phrygias, to Paphlagonia, India, Caria, and Cilicia;

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But the Carians pleaded with him to stay;

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Adusius now set out for Caria at the head of his army;

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

A coastal region of Asia Minor under Persian rule where Amorges maintains his rebellion.

and either take alive, or put to death, as the king had commanded him to do, Amorges, the natural son of Pisuthnes, who was in rebellion on the coast of Caria.

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and having gone up the country from Myus in Caria, across the plain of the Maeander, as far as the hill of Sandius, he was both slain himself and many of the army besides, in an attack made by the Carians and the people of Anaea.

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For the Liberty of the RhodiansClassical · Greek

The region associated with Artemisia and threatened by the strategic use of Rhodes.

But if the reports are true and he has failed in all his attempts, she must argue that this island would be of no use to him at present-which is true enough—but might serve as a fortress to overawe Caria and check any move on her part.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Region named as bordering the addressed city.

And you sit before Phrygia and Lydia, and besides Caria, and other most populous nations dwell around — Cappadocians and Pamphylians and Pisidians — and to all these you furnish your own city as a market and place of assembly.

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IliadClassical · Greek

Region named alongside Meonia in the simile comparing Menelaos's blood-stained legs to dyed ivory.

As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house - many a horseman is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament [ kosmos] of which both horse and driver may be proud - even so, O Menelaos, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ankles stained with blood.

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PanegyricusClassical · Greek

A region of Asia Minor governed by the disaffected Persian viceroy Hecatomnus.

Hecatomnus, the viceroy of Caria, has in reality been disaffected for a long time now, and will openly declare himself whenever we wish.

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