Cleobulus

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: ephor · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3

Life events

They privately urged the Boeotians and Corinthians to pursue alliances that could draw Argos and Lacedaemon together.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Xenares
- “when Cleobulus and Xenares, the two ephors who were the most anxious to break off the treaty, took advantage of this opportunity to communicate privately with the Boeotians and Corinthians, and, advising them to act as much as possible together, instructed the former first to enter into alliance with Argos, and then try and bring themselves and the Argives into alliance with Lacedaemon.”
The Boeotian councils refused a proposed defensive league, unaware of the advice Cleobulus and Xenares had given.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Xenares
- “The members of the Boeotian councils refused their assent to the proposal, being afraid of offending Lacedaemon by entering into a league with the deserter Corinth; the Boeotarchs not having acquainted them with what had passed at Lacedaemon and with the advice given by Cleobulus and Xenares and the Boeotian partisans there”

with Xenares (They were fellow ephors.) “Cleobulus and Xenares, the two ephors who were the most anxious to break off the treaty,”

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