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;

Miltiades son of Cimon took possession of Lemnos in this way:

These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian women;

Philoctetes:

Philoctetes:

Philoctetes:

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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;

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 they reached the expanses of Ocean, and the Red Sea, and the race of the Lemnian women, who killed their husbands.

They say that the god-like heroes went to bring from Lemnos that man afflicted with a wound, the archer son of Poeas, who sacked the city of Priam and brought an end to the toils of the Danaans;

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

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

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;