sestians

Updated: June 22, 2025

And the Athenians still possessing Sestos, he took it from them, and suffered not the Sestians themselves to dwell in it, but gave the city and country to be divided out among the pilots and masters of the ships under him; which was his first act that was disallowed by the Lacedaemonians, who brought the Sestians back again into their country.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans