Lade
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Leros · Corycus · Panormus · Tichiussa
in the texts
The Histories
Island proposed by Hecataeus as a fortified refuge for Aristagoras, an alternative he ultimately did not take.
Hecataeus the historian, son of Hegesander, was of the opinion that they should set forth to neither of these places, but that Aristagoras should build a fortress in the island of Leros and reside there, if he were driven from Miletus.
These were the Ionian ships;
This was their order of battle:
History of the Peloponnesian War
A cluster of islands and coastal sites around Miletus — Corycus, Lade, Leros, Panormus, and Tichiussa — that serve as waypoints, observation posts, and battle sites in the Miletus campaign.
As soon as it was morning, the Peloponnesians weighed anchor from Tichiussa, and put into Miletus after the enemy's departure;
The Athenians sailed up close after them with nineteen ships, and on the Milesians not admitting them, came to anchor at the adjacent island of Lade.
and both squadrons being committed to Theramenes the Lacedaemonian to take to Astyochus the admiral, put in to Lerus first, the island before Miletus.