Olynthian

Parrhasius, a painter of Athens, amongst those Olynthian captives Philip of Macedon brought home to sell, [2452] bought one very old man; and when he had him at Athens, put him to extreme torture and torment, the better by his example to express the pains and passions of his

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

When his confederates found that he had arrived, they introduced into the city, under the command of Lysistratus an Olynthian, seven light-armed soldiers carrying daggers (for of twenty who had been originally appointed to that service, only seven had the courage to enter).

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Then the Olynthian cavalry, choosing a favourable moment, when those who had crossed seemed easy to deal with, wheeled and attacked them, putting Tlemonidas himself to the sword with more than a hundred others of his company.

Hellenica 2007

B.C. 383.431 And now from yet another quarter ambassadors arrived at Lacedaemon: that is to say, from Acanthus and Apollonia, the two largest and most important states of the Olynthian confederacy.

Hellenica 2007

Nor have we yet reached the limits of Olynthian expansion; there are their neighbours to be thought of — the kingless or independent

Hellenica 2007

With the first symptoms of approaching spring the Olynthian cavalry, six hundred strong, had swooped into the territory of Apollonia — about the middle of the day — and dispersing over the district, were employed in pillaging; but as luck would have it, Derdas had arrived that day with his troopers, and was breakfasting in Apollonia.

Hellenica 2007

“Real nature of the Olynthian scheme,” pp. 190 foll., and note 2, p. 197; also Grote, “H. G.” x. 67 foll., 278 foll.

Hellenica 2007

Now there was a certain Olynthian, named Episthenes; he was a great lover of boys, and seeing a handsome lad, just in the bloom of youth, and carrying a light shield, about to be slain, he ran up to Xenophon and supplicated him to rescue the fair youth.

Anabasis 2007

He also secured the voluntary adhesion of Potidaea, although already a member of the Olynthian alliance; and this town now served as his base of operations for carrying on war on a scale adapted to his somewhat limited armament.

Hellenica 2007

Olynthian cavalry, seeing how matters were going, and in dread of finding the gates closed upon them, wheeled round and retired with alacrity.

Hellenica 2007