Lesbos - in ancient sources @ attalus.org

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Lesbos - an island in the Aegean Sea
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324/39 tyrants seek permission to return to Eresos on the island of Lesbos.
201/19 _8, drafts of letters concerning taxes in Lesbos, Thrace, and Lycia.
168/_ Olympic victor in the stadion race: Aristander of Antissa (Lesbos)
86/39 hes his opponents at Smyrna, Lesbos, Pergamon, Adramyttium, and elsew
48/18 sent by Pompeius to stay in Lesbos, until the fighting is over.
48/44 Pompeius goes to meet his wife Cornelia, on the island of Lesbos.
36/27 Sextus Pompeius takes refuge on the island of Lesbos.
Within translations:
Aelian:NA_2.6 Corinth (with whom the Lesbians concur), the latter with
Aelian:NA_12.41 ains islands larger than Lesbos and Cyrnus,* and breeds
AnthPal_6.348 left sorrow to the ladies of Lesbos and to her father
AnthPal_7.17 lian tomb, say not that I, the Lesbian poetess, am dead.
AnthPal_7.501 shore beside a spur of Lesbos rich in wine, and you lie
AnthPal_9.189 } & Go, you ladies of Lesbos, whirling as you foot it
AnthPal_9.190 The Spindle" This is the Lesbian honeycomb of Erinna, and
AnthPal_9.506 Look at the tenth, Sappho from Lesbos. [507] Callimachus
AnthPal_9.571 attended on Anacreon, Lesbian Alcaeus sings varied stra
AntipThes_9.26 ; Sappho, glory of the Lesbian women with lovely tresses
Athen_1.28 chus speaks of,- & Lesbian wine, & Which Maron himself app
Athen_4.129 asian, and Mendaean, and Lesbian wines were placed upon
Athen_11.466 who led the colony to Lesbos with other chieftains, and says
Athen_11.471 with the voluptuous drops from Lesbos made with reverent pains, and
Athen_12.532 in Cyprus, and Timotheus in Lesbos, and Chares at Sigeum, and
Athen_12.534 and banquets; and the Lesbians gave him wine, and
Athen_13.598 pain. "As for the Lesbian Alcaeus, you know in how many
Athen_13.599 she- and she from Lesbos comes, & That populous and wealt
Athen_13.603 when he was sailing to Lesbos as the general: he was a
Athen_13.610 ance, there are in Tenedos and Lesbos. But they say that
Athen_14.635 yre & Which long ago the Lesbian bard, & Terpander, did
Athen_15.678 his Miscellanies says, that the Lesbians call a branch of myrtle
Crinag_7.376 the world, so far from Lesbos, he lies a stranger on tha
Demetr:Eloc_146 e-eminent, as mid alien men is Lesbos' bard. & & & & & (Sa
Diod_37.27 the Romans. The Lesbians resolved not only to surrender
Euseb]:Chron_59 firstly Hellanicus of Lesbos and Ctesias of Cnidus, and
Euseb]:Chron_209 Aristander of Antissa in Lesbos, stadion race 154th [164
Euseb]:Chron_225 for .. years] The Lesbians - for [..] years The Phocaeans
LeonTar_6.211 the purple caul of her Lesbian hair, & her pale-blue
Lucian:Macr_22 lth. Hellanicus of Lesbos was eighty-five, Pherecydes the
Nepos_12.3 Iphicrates in Thrace, Timotheus in Lesbos, and Chares at Sigeum; it
Plin:HN_5.136 situated between Samos and Lesbos and directly opposite to
Plin:HN_5.139 The most famous island is Lesbos, 65 miles from Chios; it
Plin:HN_5.140 it is 56 miles from Lesbos and l2 from Sigeum.
Plin:HN_36.13 and in the island of Lesbos. [14] As for Dipoenus, Ambracia,
Plin:HN_36.44 which rivals it, and of Lesbos, which has a slightly more
Plin:HN_37.141 Mount Oeta, on Parnassus, in Lesbos, in Messenia (where they look
Plin:HN_37.171 the 'Lesbias,' or 'stone of Lesbos,' resembles a clod of earth.
Polyaen_1.25.1 had captured Sigeium for the Lesbians with a linen net.
Syll_764.E Mytileneans in the island [of Lesbos and whatever] . . .
Syll_764.F The league of the Lesbians honours [ Potamon son of
THI_61.D (173-169) eokles of Mytilene in Lesbos, the son of Eteokles 8
Timoth:Pers_202 rpander, born of Aeolian Lesbos at Antissa, and yoked the

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