Anaxibius
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Admiral · admiral Anaxibius · the Lacedaemonian admiral
in the texts
Anabasis
Admiral and friend of Cheirisophus expected to help provide vessels.
I have a friend Anaxibius, gentlemen, and he happens also to be Admiral.
in fact, however, he brought nothing, save the report that the admiral Anaxibius and the others commended them, and that Anaxibius promised that if they got outside the Euxine, they should have regular pay.
for even now Dexippus has already been falsely accusing him, as far as he could, to Anaxibius, even though I tried hard to silence him.
Hellenica
Lacedaemonian governor at Abydus whose campaign against Athenian interests ends in ambush and death.
but as time went on Iphicrates found out that Anaxibius had gone to Antandrus with his mercenaries, the Lacedaemonians who were with him, and two hundred hoplites from Abydus, and heard that he had brought Antandrus into relations of friendship with him.
but Anaxibius, inasmuch as the ephors had become friends of his, succeeded in having himself sent out to Abydus as governor.
Having done all these things he was not disappointed, for Anaxibius did come marching back, even though—at least, as the story ran—his sacrifices on that day had not proved favourable;