Nicolochus

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: vice-admiral · First appears: Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

After Antalcidas collected Gorgopas’s ships at Aegina and sent him back with twelve vessels, he appointed Nicolochus vice-admiral to command the rest of the fleet. Sailing to relieve Abydos, Nicolochus detoured to ravage Tenedos and used the proceeds to continue there. At Abydos, his fleet was blockaded by Iphicrates and Diotimus.

In 375 B.C. at Alyzia, Nicolochus gave battle to Timotheus with fifty-five ships against the enemy’s sixty, though six Ambraciot vessels were absent; his fleet was defeated, and Timotheus set up a trophy. Nicolochus later sailed back to Alyzia, but when Timotheus refused to meet him, Nicolochus set up a trophy on nearby islands.

Relationship record

Life events

• Antalcidas collected Gorgopas's ships, then sent him back to Aegina and appointed Nicolochus to command the remaining fleet.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Antalcidas Gorgopas
  • “Accordingly Antalcidas, after visiting Aegina in order to pick up the vessels under Gorgopas, set sail for Ephesus. At this point he sent back Gorgopas with his twelve ships to Aegina, and appointed his vice-admiral Nicolochus to command the remainder of the fleet.”
• Nicolochus ravaged Tenedos and used the proceeds to sail on to Abydos.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Tenedos)
  • “Nicolochus was to relieve Abydos, and thither set sail; but in the course of the voyage turned aside to Tenedos, where he ravaged the territory, and, with the money so secured, sailed on to Abydos.”
• Iphicrates and Diotimus blockaded Nicolochus and his fleet.(Book 5, section 1, part 2/3 · 📍 Abydos)
  • With: Iphicrates Diotimus
  • “his second in command, Nicolochus, was being blockaded with his fleet by Iphicrates and Diotimus in Abydos”
• Timotheus defeated Nicolochus's fleet and set up a trophy at Alyzia.(Book 5, section 4, part 5/5 · 📍 Alyzia)
  • With: Timotheus
  • “The result was a defeat at the moment, and Timotheus set up a trophy at Alyzia.”
• Nicolochus set up a trophy after Timotheus refused to put out to meet him.(Book 5, section 4, part 5/5 · 📍 Alyzia)
  • With: Timotheus
  • “he bore down upon Alyzia in search of the Athenian, and as Timotheus refused to put out to meet him, the Lacedaemonian in turn set up a trophy on the nearest group of islands.”

Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

• with Antalcidas (Antalcidas appointed Nicolochus to command the remainder of the fleet.) “Accordingly Antalcidas, after visiting Aegina in order to pick up the vessels under Gorgopas, set sail for Ephesus. At this point he sent back Gorgopas with his twelve ships to Aegina, and appointed his vice-admiral Nicolochus to command the remainder of the fleet.”

Book 5, section 1, part 2/3

• with Antalcidas (Nicolochus is Antalcidas's second in command.) “But learning that his second in command, Nicolochus, was being blockaded with his fleet by Iphicrates and Diotimus in Abydos, he set off at once by land for that city.”
• enemies with Iphicrates “But learning that his second in command, Nicolochus, was being blockaded with his fleet by Iphicrates and Diotimus in Abydos, he set off at once by land for that city.”
• enemies with Diotimus “But learning that his second in command, Nicolochus, was being blockaded with his fleet by Iphicrates and Diotimus in Abydos, he set off at once by land for that city.”

Book 5, section 4, part 5/5

• enemies with Timotheus “This admiral no sooner caught sight of Timotheus's fleet than without hesitation, and in spite of the absence of six Ambraciot vessels which formed part of his squadron, he gave battle, with fifty-five ships to the enemy's sixty.”

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