Mytilene
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Hellenica
Chief city of Lesbos, site of Conon's blockade by Callicratidas and a key location throughout the campaign leading to Arginusae.
Thereupon Callicratidas anchored in the harbour and blockaded him on that side, holding the outlet to the sea.
The Athenians put in to Mytilene, sailed thence against Chios, and, accomplishing nothing there, sailed back towards Samos.
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.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The chief city of Lesbos and leader of its revolt, besieged and finally taken by the Athenians under Paches.
Such were the features of the war about Mytilene.
or they would themselves make terms with the Athenians, and deliver up the city.
When the Athenians sailed up soon after and saw this, the commanders delivered their orders;
On the murder of Herodes
The city from which the defendant and Herodes set sail, and the city whose revolt from Athens forms the backdrop to the defense of the speaker's father.
Before the revolt of Mytilene my father gave visible proof of his devotion to your interests.
I sailed from Mytilene, gentlemen, as a passenger on the same boat as this Herodes whom, we are told, I murdered.
But from the moment that you punished the authors of the revolt—of whom my father was not found to be one—and granted the other citizens of Mytilene an amnesty which allowed them to continue living on their own land, he has not been guilty of a single fault, of a single lapse from duty.
Tusculan Disputations
City on Lesbos, the setting of the dialogue in Dicaearchus's Lesbiaci.
For he wrote three books, which are called the Lesbiaci because the conversation is held at Mytilene, in which he wishes to prove that souls are mortal.
Against Boeotus II
City involved in the military-funds and debt allegations.
But to prove that my father at the time received in person the reward which the people of Mytilene voted him, and that no debt was owing to him in Mytilene, I will produce a deposition of your friends.
In addition to all this, on the charge that, when I was on military service and had collected mercenaries with Ameinias (seeing that I was well-provided with funds from other sources, and had collected from Mytilene from your proxenus Apollonides and the friends of our city three hundred Phocaic staters, and had spent that sum upon these troops, in order that a matter might be prosecuted which was …
On Organization
City whose democracy is cited as destroyed because Athens failed to act.
On the contrary, it was when you stood utterly aloof and indifferent that the democracies of Mytilene and of Rhodes were destroyed.
On the Estate of Astyphilus
A city on Lesbos to which Astyphilus sailed with an Athenian military force and where he died.
The expedition to Mytilene was his last, for in it he perished.
He went abroad with the force which sailed to Mytilene, and died there.
To the Rulers of the Mytilenaeans
The city of the Mytilenaeans, praised for musical culture and treated as the community whose order and reputation are at stake.
Intelligent men, therefore, bearing in mind these considerations, should esteem most highly, first those who administer well and justly the affairs of their own city, and, second, those who are able to contribute to its honor and glory;
The sons of Aphareus, my grandsons, who were instructed in music by Agenor, have asked me to write to you and beg that, since you have restored some of the other exiles, you will also allow Agenor, his father, and his brothers to return home.
for it is disgraceful that while your city is universally acknowledged to be most devoted to music and the most notable artists in that field have been born among you, yet he who is the foremost authority of living men in that branch of culture is an exile from such a city;