Thrasybulus
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The proposition for a truce resulted in a permanent peace, by means of a very singular stratagem which Thrasybulus, the king of Miletus, practiced upon Alyattes.
From Cyrus the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
This adventure was called by the Greeks the "sister" of that of Thrasybulus, as it resembled it in the bravery and personal risk of its chief actors, and was, like the other, favoured by fortune.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
The earliest recorded amnesty in history is that of Thrasybulus at Athens, and the last act of amnesty passed in Britain was that of 1747, after the second Jacobite rebellion.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
A great naval victory was won by the Athenian fleet, under the command of Thrasybulus, over a slightly larger Peloponnesian fleet at Cynossema.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
They halted for a brief space at the fortress of Phyle, the key that had opened to Thrasybulus his native land and enabled him to give it freedom.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.
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