Phocian — Minor Figures

3 figures from Plutarch's Lives who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Caphis

friend and emissary of Sylla · first appears Sylla

Sylla · friends with Sylla “sending for the most beautiful and precious offerings deposited there. He wrote, likewise, to the Amphictyons, at Delphi, that it were better to remit the wealth of the god to him”
Sylla · with Hortensius “Hortensius, meantime, was conducted by Caphis, our countryman, another way unknown to the barbarians”

military leader · first appears Timoleon

Timoleon · with Philomelus of Phocis “these were the men that, with Philomelus of Phocis and Onomarchus, had forcibly broken into the temple of Apollo at Delphi”
Eumenes · with Eumenes “Eumenes inquired of Onomarchus, his keeper, why Antigonus, now he had his enemy in his hands, would not either forthwith dispatch or generously release him?”

military leader · first appears Timoleon

Timoleon · with Onomarchus “these were the men that, with Philomelus of Phocis and Onomarchus, had forcibly broken into the temple of Apollo at Delphi”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.