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Even then the Messenians were not inferior in courage and brave deeds, but all their generals were killed and their most notable men. After this they held out for some five months, but as the year was coming to an end deserted
But in the twentieth year they left their rich tilled lands, and fled from out the lofty mountains of
Tyrtaeus, unknown location.
This war came to an end in the first year of the fourteenth Olympiad, note when Dasmon of
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4.14.1
All the Messenians who had ties with The Lacedaemonians first razed Dedicating these offerings at Amyclae, they gave to the people of Asine, who had been driven out by the Argives, that part of The Messenians themselves were treated in this way: First they exacted an oath that they would never rebel or attempt any kind of revolution. Secondly, though no fixed tribute was imposed on them, they used to bring the half of all the produce of their fields to As to the wanton punishments which they inflicted on the Messenians, this is what is said in Tyrtaeus' poems:
In these straits the Messenians, foreseeing no kindness from the Lacedaemonians, and thinking death in battle or a complete migration from Of the young men who had grown up in The Messenians do not make Aristomenes the son of Heracles or of Zeus, as the Macedonians do with Alexander and Ammon, and the Sicyonians with Aratus and Asclepius. Most of the Greeks say that Pyrrhus was the father of Aristomenes, but I myself know that in their libations the Messenians call him Aristomenes son of Nicomedes. He then, being in the full vigor of youth and courage, with others of the nobles incited them to revolt. This was not done openly at first, but they sent secretly to
Like asses worn by their great burdens, bringing of dire necessity to their masters the half of all the fruits the corn-land bears.
Tyrtaeus, unknown location.That they were compelled to share their mourning, he shows by the following:
Wailing for their masters, they and their wives alike, whensoever the baneful doom of death came upon any.
Tyrtaeus, unknown location.
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