Herodotus' Histories

Lycopas

Family: Spartan · Role: Lacedemonian · First appears: Book 3 · §51–57

Life events

  • Archias and Lycopas entered Samos with the fleeing Samians and were killed inside the city.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Samos)
    • With: Archias (elder)
    • “Archias and Lycopas alone rushed within the wall together with the flying Samians, and being shut off from retreat were slain within the city of the Samians.”

Book 3 · §51–57

  • with Archias (elder) (They fought together and were slain within the city.) “Now if the Lacedemonians there present had all been equal on that day to Archias and Lycopas, Samos would have been captured; for Archias and Lycopas alone rushed within the wall together with the flying Samians, and being shut off from retreat were slain within the city of the Samians.”

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