Cinadon
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
Hellenica
Young Spartan of non-peer status who organized a conspiracy against the Spartiatae, exposed by an informer and then unwittingly sent by the ephors to arrest his own fellow conspirators.
In the streets also, the informer said, Cinadon pointed out as enemies here one and there two who met them, and all the rest as allies;
And within five days after the sacrifice was ended a man reported to the ephors a conspiracy, and Cinadon as the head of the affair.
the leaders, however, put it this way, that it was they who knew the secret of all the others—Helots, freedmen, lesser Spartiatae, and Perioeci;