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.
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.
Afterwards, on the attack of the Athenians and their allies, the Messanians too capitulated, giving hostages and all other securities.
THE following summer, about the time of the corn's coming into ear, ten Syracusan ships and an equal number of Locrians sailed and occupied Messana in Sicily, at the invitation of the inhabitants;