Peisias

Family: Argives · Role: head of military affairs in Argos · First appears: Book 7, section 1, part 4/4

In Book 7, section 1, Epaminondas persuaded Peisias, head of military affairs in Argos, to seize and occupy Oneion in advance. Finding that Naucles and Timomachus maintained only a poor guard there, Peisias occupied the rising ground above Cenchreae under cover of night with two thousand heavy infantry and provisions for seven days.

Relationship record

Book 7, section 1, part 4/4

• with Epaminondas (Epaminondas persuaded Peisias to occupy Oneion.) “Accordingly, he persuaded the Argive Peisias, who was at the head of military affairs in Argos, to seize and occupy Oneion in advance.”
• with Naucles (Peisias took advantage of the weak guard maintained by Naucles.) “Persias, having ascertained that only a sorry guard was maintained over Oneion by Naucles, the general commanding the Lacedaemonian foreign brigade, and by Timomachus the Athenian, under cover of night seized and occupied with two thousand heavy infantry the rising ground above Cenchreae, taking with him provisions for seven days.”
• with Timomachus (Peisias took advantage of the weak guard maintained by Timomachus.) “Persias, having ascertained that only a sorry guard was maintained over Oneion by Naucles, the general commanding the Lacedaemonian foreign brigade, and by Timomachus the Athenian, under cover of night seized and occupied with two thousand heavy infantry the rising ground above Cenchreae, taking with him provisions for seven days.”

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