Helixus

Family: Megarians · Role: general · First appears: Book 1, section 3

In Book 1, section 3, Clearchus left the government of Byzantium in the hands of Coeratadas and Helixus while he crossed to visit Pharnabazus. Unaware of the plot, Helixus and Coeratadas hurried with the garrison to the Agora; when they found the enemy occupying the city, they surrendered.

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Life events

• Coeratadas and Helixus surrendered after finding the enemy occupying the city.(Book 1, section 3 · 📍 Byzantium)
  • With: Coeratadas
  • “but finding the enemy in occupation, they had nothing for it but to give themselves up.”

Book 1, section 3

• with Clearchus (Clearchus entrusted the city's government to Helixus.) “Clearchus, meanwhile, never dreaming that any one would be capable of such an act, had crossed over to the opposite coast to visit Pharnabazus; he had left everything in perfect order, entrusting the government of the city to Coeratadas and Helixus.”
• with Alcibiades (Helixus surrendered to the occupying Athenian force led by Alcibiades.) “Helixus and Coeratadas, in complete ignorance of the plot, hastened to the Agora with the whole of the garrison, ready to confront the danger; but finding the enemy in occupation, they had nothing for it but to give themselves up.”

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