Messana
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The city of the Messanians, which capitulates to the Athenians after the fall of Mylae.
Afterwards, on the attack of the Athenians and their allies, the Messanians too capitulated, giving hostages and all other securities.
But the Athenians and their allies routed the troops in ambush, and slew many of them, and having assaulted the fortifications, compelled them to surrender the citadel, and to march with them against Messana.
while the Messanians, in the mean time, with all their forces made an expedition, at once by land and by sea, against Naxos, a Chalcidian town near their borders.