Pollis

Family: Argos · Role: private individual · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4

Life events

Sadocus had the Lacedaemonian envoys seized and delivered to the Athenian ambassadors.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4 · 📍 Thrace)
- With: Sitalces Sadocus Learchus Ameiniades Aristeus son of Adimantus Aneristus Nicolaus Stratodemus Timagoras the Tegean
- “He accordingly had them seized, as they were travelling through Thrace to the vessel in which they were to cross the Hellespont, by a party whom he had sent on with Learchus and Ameiniades, and gave orders for their delivery to the Athenian ambassadors”
The Athenians executed the envoys without trial and cast their bodies into a pit.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 4 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Aristeus son of Adimantus Aneristus Nicolaus Stratodemus Timagoras the Tegean
- “slew them all the same day, without giving them a trial or hearing the defence which they wished to offer, and cast their bodies into a pit”

with Sitalces (interaction) “At the end of the same summer the Corinthian Aristeus, Aneristus, Nicolaus, and Stratodemus, envoys from Lacedaemon, Timagoras, a Tegean, and a private individual named Pollis from Argos, on their way to Asia to persuade the King to supply funds and join in the war, came to Sitalces, son of Teres in Thrace, with the idea of inducing him, if possible, to forsake the alliance of Athens and to march on Potidæa then besieged by an Athenian force”

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