Lemnos

All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me.

Many ships had come with wine from Lemnos, sent by Euneus the son of Jason, born to him by Hypsipyle.

where are now our vaunts that we should prove victorious - the vaunts we made so vaingloriously in Lemnos, when we ate the flesh of horned cattle and filled our mixing-bowls to the brim?

for Troilus would never have exercised outside the wall, and that far from the city, nor would they have farmed the Chersonese, as all agree, if they were masters of the Troad, nor would wine have been brought to them from Lemnos.

at any rate Philoctetes was being deprived of his arms by Odysseus, and was himself being carried off to Troy, for the most part willingly, but in part also through a compulsory persuasion, since he had been robbed of the weapons which afforded him, on the one hand, his livelihood on the island, and, on the other, courage amid such a disease, and at the same time good repute.

The descendants of the crew of the Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron;

how Miltiades had punished the Pelasgians and taken Lemnos, delivering it to the Athenians.

These Pelasgians dwelt at that time in Lemnos and desired vengeance on the Athenians.

This is the headland of sea-washed Lemnos, land untrodden by men and desolate.

Who can you be, and from what country, that you have put into this harborless and desolate land?

What need, young man, has made you land here and brought you to this spot?

Under the truce Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros remained in the possession of their occupants:

To recover the islands, Lemnos, Scyros, and Imbros?

For before Philoctetes had been wounded by the serpent’s bite, what cause was contained in the nature of things that he was going to be left on the island of Lemnos?

‘Philoctetes will be left on the island,’ nor could this turn from true into false.

I leave aside Samothrace and those mysteries of Lemnos, "approached by night, in secret worship, thick-set with woodland hedges" — which, when unfolded and brought back to a rational account, teach us rather the nature of things than the nature of the gods.

It was this brother—I pass over the other facts—who got possession of the drugs and charms from the servant of Theoris of Lemnos, the filthy sorceress whom you put to death on that account with all her family.

Yes, but your own cavalry-commander has to sail to Lemnos, leaving Menelaus to command the men who are fighting for our city’s possessions.

You have the advantage of winter bases for your troops in Lemnos, Thasos, Sciathos, and the neighboring islands, where are to be found harbors, provisions, and everything that an army needs;

More than that, Athenians, you will be depriving Philip of his principal source of revenue.

Now, speaking generally, it seems to me that you will be very simple people if you imagine that I do not know that the vessels were sent ostensibly to convey corn from the Hellespont to Lemnos, but really to help the Selymbrians, who are being besieged by me and are not included in the articles of friendship mutually agreed upon between us.

did not women slay the sons of Aegyptus, and utterly clear Lemnos of men?

he is not at home, but is gone off to Lemnos among the Sintians, whose speech is barbarous.

As soon as he had spread the chains all over the bed, he made as though he were setting out for the fair state of Lemnos, which of all places in the world was the one he was most fond of.

For you appointed me, gentlemen of the jury, first as Phylarch and later as Cavalry Leader at Lemnos.

No man can be good in Lemnos if he is bad in Athens, and you had no poor opinion of me when you dispatched me there and made me responsible for two of your own cities.

and while they are feasting, Philoctetes, struck by a water-snake, is left behind on Lemnos because of the foul stench;

And Patroclus, taking Lycaon to Lemnos, sells him there.

King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros;