Herodotus' Histories

Prexinos

Family: Greek · Role: commander of a Troizenian ship · First appears: Book 7 · §177–186

Life events

  • The Barbarians captured Prexinos’s ship and sacrificed Leon.(Book 7 · §177–186 · 📍 Skiathos)
    • With: Leon
    • “The name of this man who was sacrificed was Leon”

Book 7 · §177–186

  • with Leon (Prexinos commanded the ship on which Leon was a fighting-man.) “and the ship of Troizen, of which Prexinos was in command, was pursued and captured at once by the Barbarians; who upon that took the man who was most distinguished by beauty among the fighting-men on board of her, and cut his throat at the prow of the ship”

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