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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="O"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="omias-bio-1" n="omias_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Omias</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Ὠμίας</surname></persName>), a Lacedaemonian, was
      the chief of the ten commissioners who were sent to Philip V., king of Macedon, tlen at Tegea
       (<date when-custom="-220">B. C. 220</date>), to give assurances of fidelity, and to represent the
      recent tumult at Sparta. in which the <pb n="27"/> Ephor Adeimantus and others of the
      Macedonian party had been murdered, as having originated with Adeimantus himself. Philip,
      having heard Oenias and his colleagues, rejected the advice of some of his counsellors, to
      deal severely with Sparta, and sent Petraeus, one of his friends, to accompany the
      commissioners back, and to exhort the Lacedaemonians to abide steadfastly by their alliance
      with him. (<bibl n="Plb. 4.22">Plb. 4.22</bibl>_<bibl n="Plb. 4.25">25</bibl>.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.E">E.E</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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