Eustrophus

Family: Argive · Role: envoy · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3

Life events

Argos sent Eustrophus and Aeson as envoys to negotiate a treaty with Lacedaemon.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Aeson
- “now hastily sent off Eustrophus and Aeson, who seemed the persons most likely to be acceptable, as envoys to Lacedaemon, with the view of making as good a treaty as they could with the Lacedaemonians, upon such terms as could be got, and being left in peace.”
They obtained agreement to a fifty-year truce and a procedure for settling the disputed territory by battle.(Book 5 · Chapter 16 · Part 3 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Aeson
- “Eventually, however, the Argive ambassadors succeeded in obtaining from them this concession: For the present there was to be a truce for fifty years, but it should be competent for either party, there being neither plague nor war in Lacedaemon or Argos, to give a formal challenge and decide the question of this territory by battle, as on a former occasion, when both sides claimed the victory; pursuit not being allowed beyond the frontier of Argos or Lacedaemon.”

with Aeson (They were sent together as envoys.) “now hastily sent off Eustrophus and Aeson, who seemed the persons most likely to be acceptable, as envoys to Lacedaemon,”

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