Nicomedes

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

At Doris, Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, commanded for the still-minor king Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, and led Lacedaemonians and their allies to aid the Dorians. He compelled the Phocians to restore the town on conditions, after which they began their retreat.

Relationship record

Life events

• Nicomedes compelled the Phocians to restore the town they had taken.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · 📍 Doris)
  • With: Cleombrotus Pleistoanax Pausanias
  • “After compelling the Phocians to restore the town on conditions, they began their retreat.”

Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

• parent: Cleombrotus “Meanwhile the Phocians made an expedition against Doris, the old home of the Lacedaemonians, containing the towns of Boeum, Kitinium, and Erineum. They had taken one of these towns, when the Lacedaemonians under Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, commanding for King Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, who was still a minor, came to the aid of the Dorians with fifteen hundred heavy infantry of their own, and ten thousand of their allies.”
• with Pleistoanax (Nicomedes commanded for King Pleistoanax.) “They had taken one of these towns, when the Lacedaemonians under Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, commanding for King Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, who was still a minor, came to the aid of the Dorians with fifteen hundred heavy infantry of their own, and ten thousand of their allies.”

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