Antimenidas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: ambassador · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4

In Book 5, Section 16, Antimenidas served as a Lacedaemonian ambassador with Andromedes and Phaedimus, sent to receive prisoners from the Boeotians and restore them and Panactum to the Athenians. At Panactum, the ambassadors found that the Boeotians had razed the place, citing an ancient agreement with the Athenians that neither side would inhabit it and both would graze it in common. They conveyed the Athenian prisoners back to Athens, but the Athenians, believing Lacedaemon had broken its compact, angrily dismissed the ambassadors.

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Life events

• The ambassadors discovered that the Boeotians had razed Panactum.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4 · 📍 Panactum)
  • With: Andromedes Phaedimus
  • “found that the Boeotians had themselves razed Panactum, upon the plea that oaths had been anciently exchanged between their people and the Athenians, after a dispute on the subject to the effect that neither should inhabit the place, but that they should graze it in common.”
• The ambassadors returned the Athenian prisoners of war.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Andromedes Phaedimus
  • “As for the Athenian prisoners of war in the hands of the Boeotians, these were delivered over to Andromedes and his colleagues, and by them conveyed to Athens and given back.”
• The Athenians angrily dismissed the Lacedaemonian ambassadors over the broken compact.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Andromedes Phaedimus
  • “The Athenians also considered the other points in which Lacedaemon had failed in her compact, and thinking that they had been overreached, gave an angry answer to the ambassadors and sent them away.”

Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4

• with Andromedes (Colleagues in the same embassy.) “The envoys returned accordingly. In the meantime, while the Argives were engaged in these negotiations, the Lacedaemonian ambassadors—Andromedes, Phaedimus, and Antimenidas—who were to receive the prisoners from the Boeotians and restore them and Panactum to the Athenians”
• with Phaedimus (Colleagues in the same embassy.) “The envoys returned accordingly. In the meantime, while the Argives were engaged in these negotiations, the Lacedaemonian ambassadors—Andromedes, Phaedimus, and Antimenidas—who were to receive the prisoners from the Boeotians and restore them and Panactum to the Athenians”

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