Melanippus the Rhodian

Family: Rhodian · Role: captain · First appears: Book 6, section 2, part 2/2

Life events

• Melanippus escaped Iphicrates’s ships in his own vessel.(Book 6, section 2, part 2/2)
  • “Thus he encountered the ships of Iphicrates, but contrived to slip through his fingers, while the whole of the Syracusan vessels were captured, crews and all.”

Book 6, section 2, part 2/2

• with Iphicrates (Melanippus evaded capture by Iphicrates.) “The exception was that of Melanippus the Rhodian, who had advised the other captains not to stop at this point, and had then manned his own vessel and sailed off. Thus he encountered the ships of Iphicrates, but contrived to slip through his fingers, while the whole of the Syracusan vessels were captured, crews and all.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hellenica. Made with Rho MD.