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- noun Plural form of
Colophonian .
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Examples
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He next handed over Notium to the Colophonians, excluding the Persian party.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The Colophonians even show the place where they declare that he began to compose when a schoolmaster, and say that his first work was the “Margites”.
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Colophonians who could be found in the neighbouring cities and colonised the place, to which they gave laws like their own, under new founders whom they sent out from Athens.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Notium, the port of Colophon, where the Colophonians had settled after the capture of the upper town by Itamenes and the barbarians, who had been called in by certain individuals in a party quarrel.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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Athens, and the place colonized according to Athenian laws, after collecting all the Colophonians found in any of the cities.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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However, the refugees, after settling at Notium, again split up into factions, one of which called in Arcadian and barbarian mercenaries from Pissuthnes and, entrenching these in a quarter apart, formed a new community with the Median party of the Colophonians who joined them from the upper town.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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Paches then gave up Notium to the Colophonians not of the Median party; and settlers were afterwards sent out from
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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The inhabitants of Ithaca assert, that it was here that Melesigenes became blind, but the Colophonians make their city the seat of that misfortune.
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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Colophonians at liberty, having seized Epigonus the tyrant, who oppressed them.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Notium given to anti-Persian Colophonians by, 3.34.4
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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