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ETHEA (Ancient city) LACONIA
Meanwhile the Thasians being defeated in the field and suffering siege, appealed
to Lacedaemon, and desired her to assist them by an invasion of Attica. Without
informing Athens she promised and intended to do so, but was prevented by the
occurrence of the earthquake, accompanied by the secession of the Helots and the
Thuriats and Aethaeans of the Perioeci to Ithome. Most of the Helots were the
descendants of the old Messenians that were enslaved in the famous war; and so
all of them came to be called Messenians.
LAKEDEMON (Ancient country) PELOPONNISOS
On the right wing were ten thousand Lacedaemonians; five thousand of these, who were Spartans, had a guard of thirty-five thousand light-armed helots, seven appointed for each man.
The following took part in the war: from the Peloponnese, the Lacedaemonians provided sixteen ships
The Lacedaemonians furnished ten ships
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