Hippocrates son of Ariphron

Family: Athenian · Role: Athenian general · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 4

In the same summer, Hippocrates and Demosthenes corresponded with Megarian leaders who resolved to betray the town. The Athenians captured its walls, and by the afternoon of the next day the garrison at Nisaea had capitulated and surrendered under ransom terms.

Hippocrates and Demosthenes had also received overtures from men in Boeotian cities seeking to change their constitutions and establish democracy, an intrigue led by Ptoeodorus. Hippocrates awaited the moment to take the field against the Boeotians while sending Demosthenes to Naupactus to raise an allied force and receive Siphae. At Delium, Hippocrates began fortifying Apollo’s sanctuary on the third day after leaving home, then stayed behind to arrange the posts and direct completion of the outworks. In the battle against the Boeotians, whose attack was preceded by words from Pagondas, the Athenian army fled; Hippocrates was killed.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Athenian generals conspired with Megarian leaders to betray the town.(Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 4 · 📍 Megara)
  • With: Demosthenes
  • “entered in their alarm into correspondence with the Athenian generals, Hippocrates, son of Ariphron, and Demosthenes, son of Alcisthenes, and resolved to betray the town”
• The Athenians captured the walls and drove the Peloponnesian garrison into Nisaea.(Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 4 · 📍 Megara)
  • With: Demosthenes
  • “By daybreak, the walls being now taken and the Megarians in the city in great agitation”
• The Nisaea garrison capitulated to the Athenians and surrendered under ransom terms.(Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 4 · 📍 Nisaea)
  • With: Demosthenes
  • “the garrison in Nisaea, alarmed by the absolute want of provisions, which they used to take in for the day from the upper town, not anticipating any speedy relief from the Peloponnesians, and supposing Megara to be hostile, capitulated to the Athenians on condition that they should give up their arms, and should each be ransomed for a stipulated sum”
• Hippocrates began fortifying the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 3 · 📍 Delium)
  • “The work was begun on the third day after leaving home”
• Hippocrates left Delium to arrange the posts and direct completion of the unfinished outworks.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 3 · 📍 Delium)
  • “Hippocrates having stayed behind at Delium to arrange the posts, and to give directions for the completion of such part of the outworks as had been left unfinished.”
• The Boeotians defeated the Athenians, whose army fled the battlefield.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 4)
  • With: Pagondas
  • “At length in both parts of the field, disturbed by this panic, and with their line broken by the advancing Thebans, the whole Athenian army took to flight.”
• Hippocrates was killed in the battle.(Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 4)
  • “Not quite five hundred Boeotians fell in the battle, and nearly one thousand Athenians, including Hippocrates the general, besides a great number of light troops and camp followers.”

Book 4 · Chapter 13 · Part 4

• parent: Ariphron “Hippocrates, son of Ariphron, and Demosthenes, son of Alcisthenes”

Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 1

• with Demosthenes (They coordinated simultaneous operations.) “Hippocrates with a force raised at home awaited the proper moment to take the field against the Boeotians; while he sent on Demosthenes with the forty ships above mentioned to Naupactus, to raise in those parts an army of Acarnanians and of the other allies, and sail and receive Siphae from the conspirators; a day having been agreed on for the simultaneous execution of both these operations.”
• with Ptoeodorus (Ptoeodorus was the chief mover in the intrigue involving Hippocrates.) “Hippocrates and himself had had overtures made to them by certain men in the cities in Boeotia, who wished to change the constitution and introduce a democracy as at Athens; Ptoeodorus, a Theban exile, being the chief mover in this intrigue.”

Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 3

• with Demosthenes (Both are identified as Athenian generals.) “It was in the first days of the winter following that the places in Boeotia were to be put into the hands of the Athenian generals, Hippocrates and Demosthenes, the latter of whom was to go with his ships to Siphae, the former to Delium.”

Book 4 · Chapter 14 · Part 4

• enemies with Pagondas “Hippocrates had got half through the army with his exhortation, when the Boeotians, after a few more hasty words from Pagondas, struck up the paean, and came against them”

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