Tolmides

Family: Athens · Role: general · First appears: Pericles

Life events

• Tolmides fought the Boeotians against Pericles' advice and was slain.(Comparison of Pericles with Fabius)
  • “only Tolmides broke loose from him, and, contrary to his persuasions, unadvisedly fought with the Boeotians, and was slain.”

Pericles

• with Pericles (interaction) “he endeavored to withhold him and to advise him from it in the public assembly”

Comparison of Pericles with Fabius

• with Pericles (Tolmides defied Pericles' persuasions.) “Hence it was more easy for him to prevent miscarriages arising from the mistakes and insufficiency of other officers; only Tolmides broke loose from him, and, contrary to his persuasions, unadvisedly fought with the Boeotians, and was slain.”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.