Cnidus
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Cnidian
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Carian coastal city that revolts to the Peloponnesians and becomes a fleet base.
After this they put in at Cnidus, and having assaulted the city, which was unfortifled, were within a little of taking it.
After this the Peloponnesians put into Cnidus, and the seven and twenty ships from Caunus having effected a junction with them, they sailed with the whole number, and erected a trophy on Syme, and then came to anchor again at Cnidus.
but as they did not now do it so much damage, since the inhabitants had provided better defences during the night, and the crews which had escaped from the ships at Triopium had gone in to join them, they withdrew, and after ravaging the territory of the Cnidians, sailed back to Samos.
Protrepticus
City where the famous Cnidian Aphrodite statues (by Praxiteles, and another in stone) stood and became objects of erotic devotion.
another man fell in love with this one and united with the stone — Posidippus records it, the former in his work on Cyprus, the latter in his work on Cnidus.
And Praxiteles, as Posidippus makes clear in his work on Cnidus, when fashioning the statue of Cnidian Aphrodite, made her like in form to Cratine his mistress, that the wretches might have Praxiteles' mistress to worship.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
The site of the naval battle at which Dicaeogenes (II.), commanding the Athenian ship Paralus, was killed in action.
They themselves died fighting for their country;
Dicaeogenes, having sailed out as commander of the Paralus, was killed in action at Cnidus.
Evagoras
Site of the naval battle in which Evagoras' forces played a decisive role.
and when he was the ally of the king, he made himself so much more serviceable than the others that, in the opinion of all, the forces he contributed to the naval battle at Cnidus were the largest, and as the result of this battle, while the king became master of all Asia, the Lacedaemonians instead of ravaging the continent were compelled to fight for their own land, and the Greeks, in place of s …
Panegyricus
A city marking one end of the stretch of Greek-settled Asian coastline cited as a ready base for the campaign.
From Cnidus to Sinope the coast of Asia is settled by Hellenes, and these we need not to persuade to go to war—all we have to do is not to restrain them.