Rhoeteum
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Town on the Asian mainland briefly captured by exiled Mytileneans and Lesbians and then ransomed back.
Moreover, the exiles of the the Mytilenaeans and the other Lesbians, setting out most of them from the continent, and having taken into their pay an auxiliary force from the Peloponnese, and raised troops from the neighbourhood, took Rhoeteum, but restored it without injury on the receipt of 2000 Phocaean staters.
Hellenica
A site on the Hellespont near which Dorieus beaches his triremes to escape the pursuing Athenians.
and Dorieus, fleeing from them towards the shore, beached his triremes, as fast as he got them clear of the enemy, in the neighbourhood of Rhoeteum.