Bacchylides

Family: Theban · Role: Boeotarch · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 13

Life events

• Bacchylides’s deciding vote committed the Bœotarchs to battle.(Book 9 · Chapter 13 · 📍 Leuctra)
  • With: Epaminondas Malgis Xenocrates Damoclidas Damophilus Simangelus
  • “the vote of the 7th Bœotarch on his return to the camp, (he had been on the look-out at Cithæron, and his name was Bacchylides), being given on the side of Epaminondas, it was agreed to stake everything on a battle.”

Book 9 · Chapter 13

• with Epaminondas (Bacchylides cast his vote for Epaminondas's position) “the vote of the 7th Bœotarch on his return to the camp, (he had been on the look-out at Cithæron, and his name was Bacchylides), being given on the side of Epaminondas”

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