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- verb Alternative form of
medise orMedize , both of which are alternative forms ofmedize : to be partial to theMedes (Persians).
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Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes, B.C. 480, when those Greek cities who sided with the Persians, were said to Medise, that is, to take the side of the Medes.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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During the Theban supremacy it was utterly destroyed.] [Footnote 184: That is, the aristocratic or pro-Laconian party, who had been driven out by the other side.] [Footnote 185: To Medise was a phrase originally used during the great
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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