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179 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter A
   Thirty-nine years had elapsed since the capture of Ithome and the end of the first Messenian war, when the spirit of Messenia, chafing under a degrading yoke (Polyb. iv. 32; Justin. iii. 5; Tyrt. (17.25)

2. Pausanias, Description of Greece book 4, chapter 10, section 1
   But five years after the escape of Lyciscus from Ithome, the victims being auspicious, the Lacedaemonians marched against Ithome. (15.43)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter E
   ) Thus, when the Spartans sent to ask the assistance of the Athenians against Ithome in B. C. 461, he endeavoured to prevent the people from granting the request, urging them not to raise a fallen rival, but to leave the spirit of Sparta to be trodden down ; and we find him mentioned in particular as chiefly instrumental in that abridgment of the power of the Areiopagus, which inflicted such a blow on the oligarchical party, and against which the " Eumenides" of Aeschylus was directed. (13.30)

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