Zenobius 4.94

With a Melian famine

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English

Proverb

With a Melian famine

Explanation

proverb; since the Athenians ruined the Melians by besieging them with famine, as Thucydides relates in book five.

Greek

Proverb

Μηλίῳ

Explanation

παροιμία· ἐπεὶ Ἀθηναῖοι ἐκάκωσαν Μηλίους πολιορκοῦντες ἐν λιμῷ, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ἐν τῇ ε.

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