Socles

Family: Corinthian · Role: envoy · First appears: Book 5 · §93–94

Life events

Socles opposed restoring Hippias as despot, and Hippias warned that Athens would trouble Sparta's allies.(Book 5 · §93–94)
- With: Hippias
- “Socles being the envoy of Corinth thus spoke, and Hippias made answer to him, calling to witness the same gods as he, that assuredly the Corinthians would more than all others regret the loss of the sons of Peisistratos, when the appointed days should have come for them to be troubled by the Athenians.”
The allies backed Socles and urged the Lacedaemonians not to impose despotism on a Greek city.(Book 5 · §93–94)
- “the rest of the allies, who for a time had restrained themselves and kept silence, when they heard Socles speak freely, gave utterance every one of them to that which they felt, and adopted the opinion of the Corinthian envoy, adjuring the Lacedemonians not to do any violence to a city of Hellas.”

with Hippias (Socles spoke to Hippias as Corinth's envoy; Hippias replied.) “93. Socles being the envoy of Corinth thus spoke, and Hippias made answer to him, calling to witness the same gods as he, that assuredly the Corinthians would more than all others regret the loss of the sons of Peisistratos, when the appointed days should have come for them to be troubled by the Athenians.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.