Therimenes
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 4
Therimenes, a Lacedaemonian commander, was entrusted with taking the Peloponnesian and Sicilian squadrons to Astyochus. While Therimenes was still at Miletus, the Peloponnesians concluded a new convention with Tissaphernes. Afterward, Therimenes handed the fleet to Astyochus, sailed away in a small boat, and was lost.
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Life events
- Therimenes was entrusted with taking the Peloponnesian and Sicilian squadrons to Astyochus.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 4 · 📍 Peloponnese)
- With: Astyochus
- “both squadrons had been entrusted to Therimenes, a Lacedaemonian, to take to Astyochus, the admiral.”
- The Peloponnesians concluded a new convention with Tissaphernes.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 5 · 📍 Miletus)
- With: Tissaphernes
- “Nevertheless the Peloponnesians thought the first convention with Tissaphernes, made with Chalcideus, defective, and more advantageous to him than to them, and consequently while Therimenes was still there concluded another”
- Therimenes handed the fleet to Astyochus and was lost after sailing away.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 6)
- With: Astyochus
- “After this convention Therimenes handed over the fleet to Astyochus, sailed off in a small boat, and was lost.”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 4
- with Astyochus (Therimenes was entrusted with delivering the squadrons to Astyochus.) “both squadrons had been entrusted to Therimenes, a Lacedaemonian, to take to Astyochus, the admiral.”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 5
- with Astyochus (Therimenes accompanied the fleet to hand over the ships to Astyochus.) “for as Therimenes was not admiral, but only accompanied them in order to hand over the ships to Astyochus, he made little difficulty about the pay”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 6
- with Astyochus (Therimenes handed the fleet over to Astyochus.) “After this convention Therimenes handed over the fleet to Astyochus, sailed off in a small boat, and was lost.”
Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 2
- with Lichas (The declaration by Lichas concerned the treaty of Therimenes.) “The quarrel had already taken place, as the Peloponnesians were by this time actually at Rhodes; and in it the original argument of Alcibiades touching the liberation of all the towns by the Lacedaemonians had been verified by the declaration of Lichas that it was impossible to submit to a convention which made the King master of all the states at any former time ruled by himself or by his fathers.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.