Methymna
place · 5 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Methymnaeans
in the texts
Hellenica
A harbor in Lesbos where the Athenians, at anchor, capture four Syracusan ships sailing past from Ephesus.
While they were at anchor in the harbour of Methymna, in Lesbos, they saw sailing past them from Ephesus the twenty-five Syracusan ships;
And he himself led his land forces back to Methymna, after setting fire to their camp.
And taking this money and supplying from Chios a payment of five drachmae apiece for his seamen, he sailed against Methymna, in Lesbos, which was hostile.
On the murder of Herodes
The territory in which the boats were forced to take shelter during a storm, and where Herodes transferred to the second boat on which he was last seen.
In the course of it, we happened to meet with a storm which forced us to put in at a place within the territory of Methymna, where the boat on to which Herodes transhipped, and on which the prosecution maintain that he met his end, lay at anchor.
Against Leochares
Place where Archippus died during trierarchic service.
of the three brothers Archippus lost his life at Methymna while serving as trierarch, and Meidylides not long afterward married Mnesimache, the daughter of Lysippus of Crioa.
To Timotheus
The city or polity where Cleommis holds power.
I hear that Cleommis, who in Methymna holds this royal power, is noble and wise in all his actions, and that so far from putting any of his subjects to death, or exiling them, or confiscating their property, or injuring them in any other respect, he provides great security for his fellow-citizens, and restores the exiles, returning to those who come back their lost possessions, and in each case re …
History of the Peloponnesian War
A city in Lesbos attacked unsuccessfully by exiled Methymnaeans and their hired mercenaries.
while he himself coasted along to Methymna, and gave orders for preparing meal and other necessaries, with a view of advancing from Lesbos to attack them at Chios, if any length of time should be spent there.
For some exiles of the Methymnaeans, and those the most influential, having carried over from Cuma about fifty heavy-armed men who had been associated with them, and hired others from the continent, with three hundred in all, of whom Alexander, a Theban, took the command on the strength of his connexion with them, made an attack on Methymna first;