What is "methine"

Usage examples of "methine".

Aischines - Philip led them that night on a lightning ride south, taking up a position at dawn on the slopes between Methone and Aigai, hidden from the road.

One by one, during the seven years since he became King, Philip had taken these citadels, sometimes by force - as at Methone, where the population had been sold into slavery -but more often by coercion, bribery, or simply a careful blending of all three which men called diplomacy.

Not as the Macedonians had done to his own two sons back at Methone, when the troops poured through the breached wall, killing all who stood in their way.

In Methone his work had been considered fair, but among the barbaric Macedonians he was an artist.

At first he had refused, but they fed his bitterness, reminding him of how the Macedonians had killed the children of Methone, taking the youngest by their ankles and dashing their brains to the walls.

You were at Methone, Amphipolis and a dozen other cities when the army sacked them.

Images leapt to his mind, like a window thrown open in a hidden corner of his soul, and he saw again the children of Methone piled carelessly one upon another in a grisly hill of the dead.

Agrippa also had seized Methone by storm, had killed Bogud there, was watching for merchant vessels to come to land, and was making descents from time to time on various parts of Greece, which caused Antony extreme disturbance.

As the wind was fair and moderate, their labours were not unsuccessful, and the troops were safely disembarked at Methone, on the Messenian coast, to repose themselves for a while after the fatigues of the sea.

One by one, during the seven years since he became King, Philip had taken these citadels, sometimes by force - as at Methone, where the population had been sold into slavery - but more often by coercion, bribery, or simply a careful blending of all three which men called diplomacy.

Macedonians had killed the children of Methone, taking the youngest by their ankles and dashing their brains to the walls.

The devices painted on their shields were many: the winged horse of Olynthus, the Theban club of Heracles, the crossed spears of Methone.