Panionios
Family: Chian · Role: slave trader · First appears: Book 8 · §99–105
Life events
- Panionios bought Hermotimos after he had been captured and was being sold.(Book 8 · §99–105)
- With: Hermotimos
- “For he had been captured by enemies and was being sold, and Panionios a man of Chios bought him”
- Panionios made Hermotimos a eunuch.(Book 8 · §99–105)
- With: Hermotimos
- “and also of this man about whom I speak”
Book 8 · §99–105
- with Hermotimos (Panionios bought Hermotimos and made him a eunuch.) “For he had been captured by enemies and was being sold, and Panionios a man of Chios bought him, one who had set himself to gain his livelihood by the most impious practices; for whenever he obtained boys who possessed some beauty, he would make eunuchs of them, and then taking them to Sardis or Ephesos sold them for large sums of money”
- with Hermotimos (The passage says Hermotimos obtained revenge for a wrong done to him; Panionios is identified in the surrounding passage as the man who bought and mutilated him.) “And this man of all persons whom we know up to this time obtained the greatest revenge for a wrong done to him.”
Book 8 · §106–111
- with Hermotimos (Hermotimos exacted vengeance on Panionios.) “Thus vengeance by the hands of Hermotimos overtook Panionios.”
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