Alcimenes

Family: Corinthians · Role: one of the exiles · First appears: Book 4, section 4, part 1/2

In Book 4, section 4, Alcimenes and Pasimelus crept through a watercourse to meet Praxitas, the Lacedaemonian polemarch on garrison duty at Sicyon. They told him they could let his forces into the long walls leading to Lechaeum, and then admitted him and his division, along with allies.

Relationship record

Life events

• Pasimelus and Alcimenes arranged to admit Praxitas and his forces through the long walls.(Book 4, section 4, part 1/2)
  • With: Pasimelus Praxitas
  • “It was in furtherance of this design that two men--Pasimelus and Alcimenes--undertook to creep through a watercourse and effect a meeting with Praxitas the polemarch of the Lacedaemonians, who was on garrison duty with his own division in Sicyon. They told him they could give him ingress at a point in the long walls leading to Lechaeum.”
• Praxitas entered within the long walls leading to Lechaeum with his division and allies, admitted by Pasimelus and Alcimenes.(Book 4, section 4, part 1/2)
  • With: Pasimelus Praxitas
  • “The two Corinthians introduced him, and made so simple and straightforward a representation that the visitor was convinced, and reported everything as free of pitfalls as the two had asserted. Then the polemarch entered”

Book 4, section 4, part 1/2

• with Pasimelus (They jointly undertook the mission to meet Praxitas.) “It was in furtherance of this design that two men--Pasimelus and Alcimenes--undertook to creep through a watercourse and effect a meeting with Praxitas the polemarch of the Lacedaemonians, who was on garrison duty with his own division in Sicyon.”
• with Praxitas (Alcimenes took part in the mission to meet Praxitas.) “It was in furtherance of this design that two men--Pasimelus and Alcimenes--undertook to creep through a watercourse and effect a meeting with Praxitas the polemarch of the Lacedaemonians, who was on garrison duty with his own division in Sicyon.”

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