mytilenean

Updated: May 19, 2025

The great mass of the Mytileneans regarded their own oligarchical government with suspicion and now threatened that, unless their demands were complied with, they would surrender the city to the Athenians. In this desperate emergency the Mytilenean government perceived that their only chance of safety lay in anticipating the people in this step.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest

This barbarous decree made no discrimination between the innocent and the guilty; and on the morrow so general a feeling prevailed of the horrible injustice that had been committed, that the magistrates acceded to the prayer of the Mytilenean envoys and called a fresh assembly.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest