Halonnesus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the island · fortress · garrison · maritime strongholds
in the texts
On Halonnesus
The island at the center of the speech's dispute over whether Philip may give it as his property or must restore it to Athens.
For all pirates seize places belonging to others and turn them into strongholds from which to harry their neighbors.
but that he wants all Greece to take notice that the Athenians are content to receive maritime strongholds from the man of Macedon.
Nor again does he fail to see that in either case, however you dub the transaction, the island will be yours, whether it is presented or restored to you.
Philip’s Letter
Island and fortress disputed among Philip, Athens, the Peparethians, and Sostratus.
Yet I robbed neither them nor you of the island, but only the pirate chief, Sostratus.
I repeatedly demanded a trial, but you paid me no attention, and the Peparethians occupied the island.
I actually punished them less rigorously than they deserved, for they seized Halonnesus in time of peace and refused to restore either the fortress or the garrison in spite of my repeated remonstrances.