Gaulites

Family: Carian · Role: confidant · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1

Tissaphernes sent Gaulites, a Carian confidant who spoke two languages, with Astyochus to complain about the Milesians over the affair of the fort and defend his conduct.

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• Tissaphernes sent Gaulites with Astyochus to complain about the Milesians and defend his conduct.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1)
  • With: Astyochus Tissaphernes
  • “Tissaphernes sent with him one of his confidants, Gaulites, a Carian, who spoke the two languages, to complain of the Milesians for the affair of the fort, and at the same time to defend himself against the Milesians”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1

• with Tissaphernes (Gaulites was Tissaphernes' confidant.) “Tissaphernes sent with him one of his confidants, Gaulites, a Carian, who spoke the two languages”
• with Tissaphernes (Gaulites is identified as one of Tissaphernes' confidants.) “The discontent of the army with Astyochus and Tissaphernes had reached this pitch, when Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus as admiral, and assumed the command. Astyochus now set sail for home; and Tissaphernes sent with him one of his confidants, Gaulites, a Carian, who spoke the two languages, to complain of the Milesians for the affair of the fort, and at the same time to defend himself against the Milesians, who were, as he was aware, on their way to Sparta chiefly to denounce his conduct, and had with them Hermocrates, who was to accuse Tissaphernes of joining with Alcibiades to ruin the Peloponnesian cause and of playing a double game.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.