Pedasus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
The Histories
Site in Caria where the Carians ambushed and destroyed a Persian force, killing several of their generals.
The Carians, however, rallied and fought again after this disaster, for learning that the Persians had set forth to march against their cities, they beset the road with an ambush at Pedasus.
Chrestomathy
City sacked by Achilles during his raiding campaign.
After that he drives off the cattle of Aeneas, and he sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the surrounding cities, and he kills Troilus.