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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Lesbos

    place · 7 works · 17 mentions · 29 anchored passages

    Lesbian cities · Mytilenaeans' home · Mytilene · the Lesbians

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    The island on which Mytilene, Methymna, Antissa, Pyrrha, and Eresus lie, whose revolt from Athens frames the whole window.

    but of the whole of the land they were still masters, with the rest of the Lesbians who had now come to their assistance;
    chapter 3
    Immediately after the invasion of the Peloponnesians, all Lesbos, with the exception of Methymna, revolted from the Athenians;
    chapter 3
    With the remainder he stayed there, and settled the affairs of Mytilene and the rest of Lesbos, as he thought proper.
    chapter 3

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    An island the Athenians sail toward after the Ephesus defeat, where they later capture Syracusan ships near Methymna.

    While they were at anchor in the harbour of Methymna, in Lesbos, they saw sailing past them from Ephesus the twenty-five Syracusan ships;
    chapter 1
    As for the Athenians, after obtaining a truce and so recovering the bodies of their dead, they sailed back to Notium, buried the dead there, and sailed on towards Lesbos and the Hellespont.
    chapter 1
    in the end he sought refuge in the harbour of Mytilene, in Lesbos, and with him two more of the ten generals, Leon and Erasinides.
    chapter 1

    IliadClassical · Greek

    An island whose capture provided captive women offered and kept by the Achaean leaders.

    I will give him seven excellent workwomen, from Lesbos, whom I chose for myself when he took Lesbos - all of surpassing beauty.
    chapter 9
    But Achilles slept in an inner room, and beside him the daughter of Phorbas lovely Diomede, whom he had carried off from Lesbos.
    chapter 9
    They say that in wealth and plenitude of offspring you surpassed all that is in Lesbos, the realm of Makar to the northward, Phrygia that is more inland, and those that dwell upon the great Hellespont;
    chapter 24

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    Island where Menelaos rejoins Nestor's fleet while they debate which course to take.

    Later on Menelaos joined us at Lesbos, and found us making up our minds about our course - for we did not know whether to go outside Chios by the island of Psyra, keeping this to our left, or inside Chios, over against the stormy headland of Mimas.
    chapter 3
    By father Zeus, Athena, and Apollo, if Odysseus is still the man that he was when he wrestled with Philomeleides in Lesbos, and threw him so heavily that all the Greeks cheered him - if he is still such, and were to come near these suitors, they would have a swift doom and a sorry wedding.
    chapter 17

    Against AlcibiadesClassical · Greek

    Island city from which Alcibiades requisitioned wine and other necessities for his stay at Olympia.

    while he requisitioned wine and everything else necessary for his maintenance from Lesbos.
    against alcibiades

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Aegean island, setting for the Muses' origin legend and a Dionysiac human sacrifice.

    and Dosidas says that the Lesbians offer the like sacrifice to Dionysus.
    protrepticus
    Macar reigned over the Lesbians, and was always quarrelling with his wife;
    protrepticus

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Island supplying ships to Histiaeus and later, along with Chios and Tenedos, subdued by the Persian fleet.

    When he learned this, he left Thasos unsacked, and hastened instead with all his army to Lesbos.
    chapter 6
    there they encamped, and seized all the ships that were sailing out of the Euxine, except when the crews consented to serve Histiaeus.
    chapter 6
    when he could not persuade the Chians to give him ships, he then crossed over to Mytilene and persuaded the Lesbians to give him ships.
    chapter 6