Hippocrates the Spartan
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: envoy · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 5
In the same winter, Hippocrates sailed from Peloponnese with a fleet under Dorieus and two colleagues, arriving at Cnidus, which had revolted at Tissaphernes’s instigation. Later, while at Phaselis, he and Philip wrote to Mindarus that the ships would not come and that Tissaphernes was abusing them. Mindarus then sent Hippocrates with Epicles to fetch the squadron from Euboea.
Relationship record
Life events
- Philip and Hippocrates reported to Mindarus that Tissaphernes’s ships would not come and that he was abusing them.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Miletus)
- With: Philip the Lacedaemonian Mindarus Tissaphernes
- “Philip, who had been sent with him, and another Spartan, Hippocrates, who was at Phaselis, wrote word to Mindarus, the admiral, that the ships were not coming at all, and that they were being grossly abused by Tissaphernes.”
- Mindarus sent Hippocrates and Epicles to fetch the squadron from Euboea.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 5 · 📍 Euboea)
- With: Epicles
- “and sent Hippocrates and Epicles to Euboea to fetch the squadron from that island.”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 5
- with Dorieus (Dorieus commanded the Thurian ships in Hippocrates's expedition.) “The same winter the Lacedaemonian Hippocrates sailed out from Peloponnese with ten Thurian ships under the command of Dorieus, son of Diagoras, and two colleagues, one Laconian and one Syracusan vessel, and arrived at Cnidus, which had already revolted at the instigation of Tissaphernes.”
Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4
- with Mindarus (Hippocrates sent information to Mindarus.) “To return to the Peloponnesians in Miletus. No pay was forthcoming from any of the agents deputed by Tissaphernes for that purpose upon his departure for Aspendus; neither the Phoenician fleet nor Tissaphernes showed any signs of appearing, and Philip, who had been sent with him, and another Spartan, Hippocrates, who was at Phaselis, wrote word to Mindarus, the admiral, that the ships were not coming at all, and that they were being grossly abused by Tissaphernes.”
Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 5
- with Epicles (They were jointly sent on a mission.) “and sent Hippocrates and Epicles to Euboea to fetch the squadron from that island.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.