Leon the Lacedaemonian envoy

Also known as: Leon · Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: ambassador · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4

In Book 5, Section 16, Leon arrived in haste from Lacedaemon as part of an embassy with Philocharidas and Endius. The envoys were reputed well disposed towards the Athenians and came for fear that the Athenians, in their irritation, might conclude an alliance with the Argives.

Relationship record

Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 4

with Philocharidas (Colleagues in the same embassy.) “At the same time arrived in haste from Lacedaemon an embassy consisting of persons reputed well disposed towards the Athenians—Philocharidas, Leon, and Endius—for fear that the Athenians in their irritation might conclude alliance with the Argives”
with Endius (Colleagues in the same embassy.) “At the same time arrived in haste from Lacedaemon an embassy consisting of persons reputed well disposed towards the Athenians—Philocharidas, Leon, and Endius—for fear that the Athenians in their irritation might conclude alliance with the Argives”

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