Herippidas
Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commissioner · First appears: Book 3, section 4, part 1/3
In Book 3, Herippidas, a Lacedaemonian commissioner, was present with Dercylidas and Megillus when Tissaphernes swore an oath. Agesilaus appointed him commander of the Cyreians.
In Book 4, after Pollis was wounded and retired, Herippidas took command of the vessels. Teleutias later succeeded him as admiral.
Relationship record
Life events
- Agesilaus appointed commanders for the cavalry, enfranchised heavy infantry, Cyreians, and state contingents.(Book 3, section 4, part 2/3)
- Agesilaus defeated the Thebans and their allies at the battle of Coronea, but was wounded.(Book 4, section 3, part 1/2 · 📍 Coronea)
- With: Agesilaus
- “And now the victory of Agesilaus was fairly won, and he himself, wounded, had been carried back to the main line,”
- Wounded Pollis retired, and Herippidas took command of the vessels.(Book 4, section 8, part 1/4)
- With: Pollis
- “That officer, in an attack of no great moment, lost his life, and Pollis, his second in command, was presently in his turn obliged to retire, being wounded, whereupon Herippidas took command of the vessels.”
Book 3, section 4, part 1/3
- with Tissaphernes (Herippidas was present as a commissioner when Tissaphernes swore an oath.) “Accordingly in the presence of three commissioners--Herippidas, Dercylidas, and Megillus--Tissaphernes took an oath in the words prescribed”
- with Agesilaus (Herippidas swore the counter-oath on Agesilaus's behalf.) “Accordingly in the presence of three commissioners--Herippidas, Dercylidas, and Megillus--Tissaphernes took an oath in the words prescribed: ”
Book 3, section 4, part 2/3
- with Agesilaus (interaction) “Among these Agesilaus appointed Xenocles and another to the command of the cavalry, Scythes to that of the heavy infantry of the enfranchised, Herippidas to that of the Cyreians”
Book 4, section 1, part 1/2
- enemies with Pharnabazus “Thereupon he ordered the troops to get their evening meal, after which they were to present themselves in front of the camp. But by the time darkness had closed in, not one half of them had come out. To abandon the project was to call down the ridicule of the rest of the Thirty. So he set out with the force to hand, and about daylight, falling on the camp of Pharnabazus, put many of his advanced guard of Mysians to the sword.”
Book 4, section 3, part 1/2
- with Agesilaus (Herippidas leads a brigade in Agesilaus's army.) “when Herippidas with his foreign brigade, and with them the Ionians, Aeolians, and Hellespontines, darted out from the Spartans' battle-lines to greet their onset.”
Book 4, section 8, part 1/4
- with Pollis (Herippidas took command after Pollis retired.) “That officer, in an attack of no great moment, lost his life, and Pollis, his second in command, was presently in his turn obliged to retire, being wounded, whereupon Herippidas took command of the vessels.”
- with Teleutias (Teleutias succeeded Herippidas in command of the fleet.) “Subsequently Teleutias succeeded to Herippidas's fleet, and it was then the turn of that admiral to dominate the gulf.”
- with Pollis (Herippidas assumed command after Pollis retired.) “Pollis, his second in command, was presently in his turn obliged to retire, being wounded, whereupon Herippidas took command of the vessels.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hellenica. Made with Rho MD.