Eresus
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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.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A city in Lesbos that revolts and is besieged by the Athenian fleet, the siege abandoned when the Peloponnesian fleet is discovered entering the Hellespont.
Thrasybulus, too, had arrived there before him with five ships from Samos, on receiving tidings of the exiles thus crossing over;
When, how ever, they were aware of it, they immediately left Eresus, and proceeded with all haste to the defence of the Hellespont.
and so there were present, in all, seven and sixty ships, with the troops of which they made their preparations for taking Eresus by storm, if they could, with the aid of engines, or in any way whatever.