Hipponoidas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: Polemarch · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8

At Sparta, Hipponoidas and Aristocles refused Agis’s order to move over during the onset. They were later banished from Sparta for cowardice.

Relationship record

Hipponoidas and Aristocles refused Agis’s order and were banished from Sparta for cowardice.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 8 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Aristocles
- “Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice”

with Agis (Hipponoidas refused Agis's order and was later banished.) “However, as he gave these orders in the moment of the onset, and at short notice, it so happened that Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice; and the enemy meanwhile closed before the Sciritae (whom Agis on seeing that the two companies did not move over ordered to return to their place) had time to fill up the breach in question.”
with Aristocles (They jointly refused Agis's order and were banished for the offense.) “However, as he gave these orders in the moment of the onset, and at short notice, it so happened that Aristocles and Hipponoidas would not move over, for which offence they were afterwards banished from Sparta, as having been guilty of cowardice”

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