Messenians
quoted 3 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Messenians the group
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
3 reported
3 neutralin the voice of Demosthenes 2 , Envoys 1
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in the voice of Demosthenes
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Second Philippic Demosthenes 2 neutral 2 citations · 7 passages
The speaker explicitly reports what he said to the Messenians.
Can you not imagine, I said, addressing the Messenians, how annoyed the Olynthians would have been to hear a word said against Philip in the days when he was handing over to them Anthemus, to which all the former kings of Macedonia laid claim, when he was making them a present of Potidaea, expelling the Athenian settlers, and when he had taken upon himself the responsibility of a quarrel with us a …
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History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 neutral 1 citation
Demosthenes's tactical order that the Messenians speak in Doric to deceive the Ambraciot sentinels is reported as the ruse enabling the decisive dawn ambush at Idomene.
For Demosthenes had purposely posted the Messenians first, with orders to address them, speaking in the Doric dialect, and so creating confidence in the sentinels;
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