Alciphron

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: proxenus · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 6

Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 6

• with Agis (interaction) “Two men, however, in the Argive army, Thrasylus, one of the five generals, and Alciphron, the Lacedaemonian proxenus, just as the armies were upon the point of engaging, went and held a parley with Agis and urged him not to bring on a battle, as the Argives were ready to refer to fair and equal arbitration whatever complaints the Lacedaemonians might have against them, and to make a treaty and live in peace in future.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.