Praxitas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: polemarch · First appears: Book 4, section 4, part 1/2

In Book 4, section 4, Pasimelus and Alcimenes met Praxitas while he was on garrison duty with his division in Sicyon, and told him they could give him entry through the long walls leading to Lechaeum. Praxitas was convinced by their account, and entered through the walls with his division and allies, admitted by Pasimelus and Alcimenes.

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Life events

• Pasimelus and Alcimenes arranged to admit Praxitas and his forces through the long walls.(Book 4, section 4, part 1/2)
  • With: Pasimelus Alcimenes
  • “It was in furtherance of this design that two men--Pasimelus and Alcimenes--undertook to creep through a watercourse and effect a meeting with Praxitas the polemarch of the Lacedaemonians, who was on garrison duty with his own division in Sicyon. They told him they could give him ingress at a point in the long walls leading to Lechaeum.”
• Praxitas entered within the long walls leading to Lechaeum with his division and allies, admitted by Pasimelus and Alcimenes.(Book 4, section 4, part 1/2)
  • With: Pasimelus Alcimenes
  • “The two Corinthians introduced him, and made so simple and straightforward a representation that the visitor was convinced, and reported everything as free of pitfalls as the two had asserted. Then the polemarch entered”

Book 4, section 4, part 1/2

• with Pasimelus (Pasimelus took part in the mission to meet Praxitas.) “It was in furtherance of this design that two men--Pasimelus and Alcimenes--undertook to creep through a watercourse and effect a meeting with Praxitas the polemarch of the Lacedaemonians, who was on garrison duty with his own division in Sicyon.”
• with Alcimenes (Alcimenes took part in the mission to meet Praxitas.) “It was in furtherance of this design that two men--Pasimelus and Alcimenes--undertook to creep through a watercourse and effect a meeting with Praxitas the polemarch of the Lacedaemonians, who was on garrison duty with his own division in Sicyon.”

Also listed in Lacedaemonian — Minor Figures

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