Aristonymus of Methydrium
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Aristonymus
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Anabasis
A hoplite volunteer chosen for the expedition to seize the height.
Volunteers came forward, from the hoplites Aristonymus of Methydrium and Agasias of Stymphalus, while in rivalry with them Callimachus of Parrhasia said that he was ready to make the expedition and take with him volunteers from the entire army;
At that moment Callimachus hit upon a scheme:
and at that moment Aristonymus of Methydrium ran past both of them, and upon his heels Eurylochus of Lusi.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian commissioner sent to announce the armistice to the allies in the Thraceward region.
Now Aristonymus allowed all the other cases;
So when Aristonymus reported their case at Athens, the people were immediately prepared to send an expedition against Scione.
but finding, on a calculation of the days, that the Scionaeans had revolted after the date of the convention, he said that they would not be included in it.