Polyxenus

Family: Syracusan and Italian · Role: squadron commander · First appears: Book 5, section 1, part 2/3

Life events

Antalcidas awaited Polyxenus and his twenty-ship squadron to join his fleet.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 Abydos)
- With: Antalcidas
- “trusting to information brought him of the approach of Polyxenus with the Syracusan and Italian squadron of twenty ships, which he wished to pick up and incorporate with his own.”
Syracusan, Ionian, and Ariobarzanes's forces joined Antalcidas, bringing his fleet to more than eighty ships.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 Ionia)
- With: Antalcidas Tiribazus Ariobarzanes
- “Presently the Syracusan squadron of twenty vessels joined him, and again another squadron from Ionia, or rather so much of that district as lay under the control of Tiribazus. The full quota of the contingent was further made up from the territory of Ariobarzanes”

with Antalcidas (Antalcidas intended to join Polyxenus's squadron to his own.) “Meanwhile the Athenian forces under Demaenetus and Dionysius and Leontichus and Phanias had got wind of his movement, and were in hot pursuit towards Proconnesus. As soon as they were well past, the Spartan veered round and returned to Abydos, trusting to information brought him of the approach of Polyxenus with the Syracusan and Italian squadron of twenty ships, which he wished to pick up and incorporate with his own.”

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