Pasimelus

Family: Corinthians · Role: one of the younger men · First appears: Book 4, section 4, part 1/2

In Book 4, section 4, Pasimelus suspected that an attack was coming, and the younger men kept quiet in the Kraneion. With Alcimenes, he crept through a watercourse to meet Praxitas, offering him entry through the long walls to Lechaeum; the two Corinthians then admitted Praxitas and his forces.

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Life events

• Pasimelus suspected an impending attack, and the younger men kept quiet in the Kraneion.(Book 4, section 4, part 1/2 · 📍 Kraneion)
  • “The younger men, acting on a suspicion conceived by one of their number, Pasimelus, as to what was going to take place, kept quiet in the Kraneion”
• Pasimelus and Alcimenes arranged to admit Praxitas and his forces through the long walls.(Book 4, section 4, part 1/2)
  • With: Alcimenes 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. 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: Alcimenes Praxitas
  • “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 Alcimenes (They jointly undertook 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 Praxitas (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.”

Book 7, section 3

• with Euphron (Pasimelus assisted Euphron in handing over the harbour.) “Hither he summoned Pasimelus from Corinth, and by his instrumentality handed over the harbour to the Lacedaemonians.”

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