Alcidas
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 10 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan high-admiral sent with a relief fleet to Mytilene; arrives too late, is indecisive, kills prisoners, and flees home after being rebuked and pursued.
Afterwards, however, they prepared a fleet to send to Lesbos, and gave orders to the different states for ships to the number of forty, and appointed Alcidas, who was to conduct the expedition, their high-admiral.
The following summer, after the Peloponnesians had despatched Alcidas, who was their high-admiral, (for they had conferred that office upon him,) with the two and forty ships to Mytilene, they themselves and their allies made an irruption into Attica;
From Ephesus Alcidas sailed as quickly as possible, and took to flight.