Crinippus
Family: Syracusans · Role: commander · First appears: Book 6, section 2, part 2/2
Life events
- Iphicrates kept Crinippus under guard rather than offering him the crews’ ransom terms.(Book 6, section 2, part 2/2 · 📍 Corcyra)
- With: Iphicrates
- “With the captive crews themselves he came to an agreement that each should pay a fixed sum as ransom, with one exception, that of Crinippus, their commander.”
- Crinippus took his own life while a prisoner.(Book 6, section 2, part 2/2)
- “The prisoner, however, from vexation of spirit, put an end to his own life.”
Book 6, section 2, part 2/2
- with Iphicrates (Iphicrates held Crinippus captive.) “With the captive crews themselves he came to an agreement that each should pay a fixed sum as ransom, with one exception, that of Crinippus, their commander. Him he kept under guard, with the intention apparently of exacting a handsome sum in his case or else of selling him.”
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