Butes

Family: Persian · Role: commander of Eion · First appears: Cimon

Cimon

• enemies with Cimon “Then he fell upon the Thracians of the country beyond the Strymon, because they supplied Eion with victuals, and driving them entirely out of the country, took possession of it as conqueror, by which means he reduced the besieged to such straits, that Butes, who commanded there for the king, in desperation set fire to the town”

Also listed in Persian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.