λ557Λιμὸς Μηλιαῖος
Melian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation
[A phrase used] in reference to hardships. For during the Peloponnesian War the Athenians dispatched Nikias against everyone and laid siege to them so strenuously as to make them perish by starvation. And in the first…
Λιμὸς Μηλιαῖος· ἐπὶ τῶν χαλεπῶν. ἐν γὰρ τοῖς Πελοποννησιακοῖς κατὰ πάντων Νικίαν πέμψαντες Ἀθηναῖοι ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἐπολιόρκησαν αὐτοὺς ὥστε λιμῷ διαφθεῖραι. τῷ δὲ πρώτῳ ἔτει Νικίας…