Sestus
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Sestians
in the texts
Hellenica
A city on the Hellespont serving repeatedly as an Athenian base and gathering point for the fleet.
From Sestus all but forty of their ships went off in different directions, outside the Hellespont, to collect money;
Meanwhile the Athenians at Sestus, learning that Mindarus was planning to sail against them with sixty ships, withdrew by night to Cardia.
At length the Athenians sailed away to Sestus after capturing thirty of the enemy’s ships, though without their crews, and recovering those which they had previously lost themselves.
Against Aristocrates
Hellespontine place in Cotys' possession, linked with Charidemus' crossing and a hostage.
for he crossed from Abydus, a place always hostile to you, and the base from which Sestus was captured, to Sestus, which was in the possession of Cotys.
and that, though he had taken his oath to Athenodorus that he would surrender the son of Iphiades, the hostage whom he held on behalf of Sestus, he now does not even promise to surrender him.
Yet you must not imagine that either the Abydenes or the people at Sestus would have admitted him, after that letter had been sent to you, if they had not been aware that he was cheating you, or if they had not been actually parties to the deception.
Apollodorus Against Polycles
A place in the Hellespontine theater where Apollodorus borrows and manages crew.
When I arrived at Sestus, I expected to sail for home, as my term of service had expired, and I had already served two months beyond it and no successor had arrived to take over the ship.
Consequently when my affairs were in the condition which I have described, and at the same time I was ordered by the general, Timomachus, to sail to Hieron to convoy the grain, though he provided no pay (word had been brought that the Byzantines and the Calchedonians were again bringing the ships into port and forcing them to unload their grain), I borrowed money from Archidemus of Anaphlystus, fi …
I myself stayed in Sestus and gave some money—all I had—to the old sailors who stayed with me, since the term of my trierarchy had expired, and I secured also some other sailors at full pay, while the general was making ready for his voyage to Hieron.
The Histories
Fortified town on the Chersonese besieged and captured by the Athenians.
Now when the Persians heard that the Greeks were at the Hellespont, they had come in from the neighboring towns and assembled at this same Sestus, seeing that it was the strongest walled place in that region.
The Greeks bound them and carried them to Sestus, and together with them Artayctes and his son also in bonds.
So when the treasure was given to him, he carried it away from Elaeus to Sestus, and planted and farmed the precinct.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Town in the Chersonese, historically held by the Medes, garrisoned by Strombichides opposite Abydus.
and when the Lampsacenes came out against him, having defeated them in battle, taken at the first assault their city, which was unfortified, and made spoil of implements and slaves, (though he restored the freemen to their dwellings,) he proceeded against Abydus When they did not capitulate, and he was unable to take the place by assault, he sailed away to the coast opposite Abydus, and appointed …