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  • Either in Cyme or Ascra, two sons, Hesiod and Perses, were born to the settler, and these, after his death, divided the farm between them.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • My dear limbs yearn not to stay in the sacred streets of Cyme, but rather my great heart urges me to go unto another country, small though I am.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Ionian exiles and the Lesbians with the expedition began to urge him, since this seemed too dangerous, to seize one of the Ionian cities or the Aeolic town of Cyme, to use as a base for effecting the revolt of Ionia.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • It is thought that Diodorus drew his account of Salamis from the now missing work of Ephorus of Cyme, a fourth century B.C. Greek historian.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • The Greeks got not only fifteen triremes but also three important Persian commanders, including the governor of Aeolis, a region in northwest Anatolia that included the city of Cyme, a major naval harbor, as well as a Carian tyrant and a commander from Cyprus.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • It is thought that Diodorus drew his account of Salamis from the now missing work of Ephorus of Cyme, a fourth century B.C. Greek historian.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • The Greeks got not only fifteen triremes but also three important Persian commanders, including the governor of Aeolis, a region in northwest Anatolia that included the city of Cyme, a major naval harbor, as well as a Carian tyrant and a commander from Cyprus.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • When he arrived at Cyme, and understood that all along the coast there were many laid wait for him, and particularly Ergoteles and

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Meanwhile the land forces of the Peloponnesians who were with the Chians and those of the allies on the spot, moved along shore toward Clazomenae and Cyme, under the command of Eualas, a Spartiate; at the same time the fleet under Diniades, one of the perioikoi, 2 first sailed up to Methymna and caused it to revolt, and, leaving four ships there, with the rest procured the revolt of Mytilene.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • Peloponnesian ships driven by storm to Cyme, 8.31.3

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

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