Most people from Lesbos prefer to identify as Mytilene. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Greeks from island of Lesbos take gay group to court over use of "lesbian"] Reference

Mopsus in Cilicia; of Orpheus in Lesbos, and of Trophonius in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

She came from Lesbos, and it had been a gift for her own wedding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

Barbarossa himself was born in Lesbos, probably of a Greek mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

Her independent allies were Chios, Lesbos, Corcyra, and other states.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

In Lesbos the Communists took over and declared an independent republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

Arctinus of Lesbos had treated at great length the story of the House of Thebes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

A spirit of revolt against Athenian rule appeared in Lesbos, which seceded in 428.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

The Æolian island of Lesbos was the hearth and home of the earlier lyric poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Close to the Asian shores are the large islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, and Rhodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The enemy on Lesbos did not concern him: he wanted to surprise the besieging Roman army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

MITYLENE, the capital city of the isle of Lesbos, and now gives name to the whole island.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference

The story told me more than I ever wanted to know about pistol packin 'Lesbos who carried 9mm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvin Kitman: Olbermann Rules] Reference

In the year 428 B.C. the city of Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos, revolted from the Athenians.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

The neighboring island of Lesbos became the home and centre of Æolian culture in poetry and music.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

I didn't understand that if you called my friends a “bunch of Lesbos,” you did it to protect me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird-Watching] Reference

Lesbos is a town built with magnificence and good taste, but its position shows a lack of foresight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

She was born near the close of the seventh century B.C., either at Mytilene or at Eresos in the island of Lesbos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Island states like Lesbos and Chios were very well off under Mithridates, and they'd love to see the end of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Being informed of this he left Thasos unconquered and himself hastened to Lesbos, taking with him his whole army.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Herodotus] Reference

And of those which are in the islands, there are five in Lesbos, for the sixth which was situated in Lesbos, namely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Herodotus] Reference

But no sooner did he land on Lesbos than Manius Aquillius became ill with an enteric fever, and could not travel further.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

Among the lyric poets of Greece some writers assign the very first place to Alcæus, a native of Lesbos, who flourished about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

He himself is of Lesbos; for masters, as well as students, come hither from all regions of the earth, -- as befits a University.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

Chios conveyed them from Chios to Lesbos, and the Lesbians brought them to Doriscos, and thence they proceeded by land and came to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Herodotus] Reference

The weather held, with the result that the fleet-still keeping well together-arrived off the northern tip of Lesbos six days early.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

On his return to Lesbos, Paches despatched to Athens the prisoners who had been sent to Tenedos, among whom was the Spartan Salaethus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

  Whatever had passed between them, Borden knew that the next employee would be hired at La Donna's bidding and would be, without a doubt, a sister of Lesbos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borden, Dream on Lord of the Pies.] Reference