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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