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Artas
Artas was a Messapian ruler in south-eastern Italy in the late fifth century BCE. According to Thucydides, in 413 BCE he renewed an old friendship with Athens and supplied 150 Messapian javelin-men to the Athenian expedition to Sicily under Demosthenes. He is one of the few Messapian rulers named in Greek sources.
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