Messenian

They were not particularly big on liberties, running Laconia as a military camp and enslaving the surrounding Messenian population whom they called helots.

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Writing much later, Xenophon stated that helots would gladly eat their masters raw, and several revolts of Messenian helots have been recorded.

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During the same winter the Athenian forces at Naupactus, after the Peloponnesian fleet had dispersed, made an expedition under the command of Phormio into the centre of Acarnania with four hundred hoplites of their own taken from the fleet61 and four hundred Messenian hoplites.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Messenian contingent came to Cleon and Demosthenes and told them that the army was throwing away its pains, but if they would give him some archers and light-armed troops and let him find a path by which he might get round in the rear of the Lacedaemonians, he thought that he could force the approach.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

With them came Demosthenes, who brought two hundred Messenian hoplites and sixty Athenian archers.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Athenian general, arrived from Naupactus with twelve ships and five hundred Messenian hoplites.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Messenian, &c. commonwealths of Greece make ample proof, as those imperial cities and free states of Germany may witness, those

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Messenian auxiliaries and all who were on duty about Pylos, except the guards who could not be spared from the walls of the fortress.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Agesilaus begged the state to absolve him from the conduct of this war on the plea that the city of Mantinea had done frequent service to his father424 in his Messenian wars.

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Leucadian isthmus, that they might not be seen sailing round. 69 When the Corcyraeans perceived that the Athenian fleet was appoaching, while that of the enemy had disappeared, they took the Messenian troops, who had hitherto been outside the walls, into the city, and ordered the ships which they had manned to sail round into the Hyllaic harbour.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007