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Messenia - a region in the south-west Peloponnese, Greece
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+ Messenian , Messenians
315/4a invades the Peloponnese, and wins over Argos and most of Messenia.
307/17b a decree of Delphi, granting privileges to Nicodemus of Messenia.
221/27 The Messenian ephors fine Dorimachus the Aetolian for encouraging bri
220/7 The Aetolians invade Messenia.
217/13 Lycurgus returns to Sparta and invades Messenia.
213/12 Philippus ravages Messenia.
208/3a decrees of Delphi in honour of the Messenians and their officers.
182/4 Philopoemon is captured by the Messenians.
182/8 Philopoemon is put to death by the Messenians.
138/19 ing arbitration by Miletus in a dispute between Messenia and Sparta.
91/13a l_736, regulations concerning the mysteries at Andania in Messenia.
Within translations:
Aelian:Fr_287 L'138 , & Ph'127 & & The Messenians insult the first offer
Aelian:NA_13.4 statements when he says in his Messenian woman [fr. 31 ?]
AnthPal_7.541 Spartans defeated the Messenians, but this epigram must
Athen_6.264 frequent revolts of the Messenians, and in the case of
Athen_6.271 in the war against the Messenians, those who were left
Athen_6.272 tans, some of them being Messenians, and some Heleatae,
Athen_10.442 being neighbours of the Messenians, and being also a peop
Athen_12.547 same manner the Messenians by a public decree banished
Athen_13.599 schylus who composed the Messenian epic - a man of great
Athen_14.630 eus they had subdued the Messenians, introduced a regular
Athen_15.666 And Dicaearchus the Messenian, the pupil of Aristotle, in
Demetr:Eloc_153 of Menander's 'Woman of Messenia.' [154] & Again, a simi
Euseb]:Chron_193 768 B.C.] - Androclus of Messenia, stadion race [At this
Euseb]:Chron_195 B.C.] - Polychares of Messenia, stadion race 5th [760
Euseb]:Chron_203 428 B.C.] - Symmachus of Messenia, stadion race 89th [424
Just_3.4-6 * going to war with the Messenians for offering violence
Just_25.4 Athenians, Achaeans, and Messenians; and all Greece, inde
Just_32.1 war, arose between the Messenians and Achaeans, to deter
Oros_4.20 captured and executed by the Messenians. 30 Near Sicily, the island
Plin:HN_37.141 on Parnassus, in Lesbos, in Messenia (where they look like flowers
Plut:Agis_21 Theopompus, who, as the Messenians claim, was killed by
Plut:Arat_47-51 * for the sake of assisting the Messenians. He assembled
Plut:Cleom_10 rates. But as the Messenian war was drawn out to a great
Plut:Cleom_19 neral by Tritymallus the Messenian, and proposed that the
Plut:Cleom_35 his state, Nicagoras the Messenian, a man who concealed
Plut:Mor_192 Philippus had given the Messenians a country, asked wheth
Plut:Mor_851 ocrians, Byzantines, and Messenians to a league with the
Polyaen_1.15.1 had been at war with the Messenians for twenty years, when
Polyaen_1.17.1 battle with the Messenians, the Lacedaemonians determin
Polyaen_2.1.28 & After marching into Messenia, Agesilaus sent out a
Polyaen_2.3.5 owed them the Arcadians, Messenians, Argives and other Pel
Polyaen_2.31.2-4 * enes, the general of the Messenians, was disabled by wound
Polyaen_2.35.1 to the property of the Messenians, Agemachus, the Messen
Polyaen_5.2.18 sius was at war with the Messenians, a rumour prevailed,
Polyaen_5.15.1 the hands of the tyrant. The Messenians did as he sugges
SEG_58.370 (180-170) uld not be removed from the Messenians; and agai
Syll_472 (c. 240) ed by the city of the Messenians, that there shal
Syll_555 (c. 209/8) praise the city of Messenia on account of its p
Syll_556 (c. 209/8) praise the city of Messenia on account of its piety
Syll_557 (after 208/7) which Hagesidamos of Messenia won the pankration [f
ValMax_1.8e.15 heart of Aristomenes the Messenian; when the Athenians, because

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