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Olynthus

[ oh-lin-thuhs ]

noun

  1. an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.


Olynthus

/ əʊˈɪθə /

noun

  1. an ancient city in N Greece: the centre of Chalcidice
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  • ··ٳ· [oh-, lin, -thee-ak], ·t· adjective noun
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Unlike most large Greek towns, which grew gradually and haphazardly, Alexandria had commissioned planners, Deinocrates of Rhodes and Crates of Olynthus, to push through designs for her architecture and waterworks, respectively.

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He espoused the cause of Philip in the war against Olynthus, and was thus brought into bitter and life-long enmity with Demosthenes, whom he at first supported.

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In 349 Euboea and Olynthus were lost to the league, of which indeed nothing remained but an empty form, in spite of the facts that the expelled Olynthians appealed to it in 348 and that Mytilene rejoined in 347.

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Likewise Lasthenes betrayed the city of Olynthus to Philip of Macedon.

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And Archestratus, praising the head of the glaucus, says— If you're at Megara or at Olynthus, Dress me a grayling's head.

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