Phlius
place · 6 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Phliasian · Phliasians · city of Phlius · the Phliasian country · the Phliasian territory
in the texts
Hellenica
City whose exiles are restored after Lacedaemonian pressure.
Accordingly they sent to the city of the Phliasians and said that the exiles were friends of the Lacedaemonian state and had been exiled for no wrong-doing.
On account, then, of such fears, the Phliasians voted to take back the exiles and to restore to them their undisputed property, those who had purchased such property to recover the price of it from the public treasury;
And now the exiles from Phlius, as they observed that the Lacedaemonians were investigating to see what sort of friends their several allies had proved to be to them during the war, thinking that it was an opportune time, proceeded to Lacedaemon and set forth that so long as they were at home in Phlius, the city had received the Lacedaemonians within its walls, and its people had gone with them on …
History of the Peloponnesian War
City to which the priestess Chrysis flees after the temple of Hera burns down.
Chrysis immediately, the same night, fled to Phlius, in her fear of the Argives;
The allies in the rest of the Peloponnese also, and those beyond it, mustered at Phlius;
but Agis broke up in the night, and eluding them, proceeded to the rest of the allies at Phlius.
Tusculan Disputations
Greek city where Pythagoras's conversation with Leon, coining the term 'philosopher,' is set.
and Pythagoras answered that the life of men seemed to him like that fair held with the greatest pomp of games, in the gathering of all Greece;
Who, when after this conversation at Phlius he had come into Italy, adorned that Greece which was called Magna, both privately and publicly, with most excellent institutions and arts.
Who, as Heraclides of Pontus, the hearer of Plato, a man learned among the first, writes, is said to have come to Phlius, and there to have discoursed learnedly and copiously on certain matters with Leon, chief of the Phliasians.
For the People of Megalopolis
A city or state named in a Spartan proposal for territorial restitution.
For they now say that Elis ought to receive parts of Triphylia, and Phlius the district of Tricaranum, and certain Arcadian tribes the land belonging to them, and that we ought to have Oropus, not because they want to see each of us enjoying our own, far from it—(that would be a tardy exhibition of philanthropy).
Panegyricus
A Greek city currently besieged by the Lacedaemonians.
and now they are laying siege to Olynthus and Phlius:
Nemean
Region near Nemea, named as the site where Creontidas was crowned.
And the herb of the Nemean lion once crowned him when he was victorious beneath the shady primeval mountains of Phlius.