Acarnanians of Palaira, they stormed Astacus, expelled its tyrant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

They also stormed the town of Astacus, and driving out Evarchus who was tyrant there, added it to the Athenian confederacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

In the Gaggiolo stream there are large numbers of crayfish Astacus pallipes, and in the karst caves of the southern slopes many cave-dwelling crustacea and millipedes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland] Reference

They sailed to Astacus, and restored Evarchus; they then tried to gain over certain other towns on the coast of Acarnania; but, failing in their attempt, they proceeded homewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

During the following winter, Evarchus the Acarnanian, desiring to be restored to Astacus, persuaded the Corinthians to sail with forty ships and fifteen hundred hoplites and reinstate him, he himself hiring some mercenaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Astacus, a city in Bithynia, also called Nicomedia, 287.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens] Reference

Idas lanigeri dominus gregis, Astacus horti, dilexere diu, formosus uterque nec impar voce sonans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Astacus and Idas, two beauteous youths, enter into a poetical contest at which Thyrsis acts as judge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Palaira, they stormed Astacus, expelled its tyrant Evarchus, and gained the place for their confederacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

If you will go and hire me a boat, dark as it is, we can sail at once to Prœnetus, on the Gulf of Astacus, opposite Nicomedia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference

But against Tydeus will I marshal this wary son of Astacus, as defender of the portals, full nobly born, and one that reverences the throne of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes] Reference

Peloponnesian fleet, the Athenians in Naupactus, under Phormio, coasted along to Astacus and disembarked, and marched into the interior of Acarnania with four hundred Athenian heavy infantry and four hundred Messenians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

In the ensuing winter the Acarnanian Evarchus, wishing to return to Astacus, persuaded the Corinthians to sail over with forty ships and fifteen hundred heavy infantry and restore him; himself also hiring some mercenaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

By the gate of Proetus stands the raging Tydeus with his helm of hairy crests and his buckler tricked out with a full moon and a gleaming sky full of stars, against whom Eteocles will marshal the wary son of Astacus, a noble and a modest youth, who detests vain boastings and yet is not a coward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes] Reference

Astacus to find him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference

The loyal son of Astacus, as guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference

Astacus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference