Clearchus
historical figure · 11 works · 20 mentions · 31 anchored passages
Clearchus the son of Ramphias · Clearchus son of Ramphias · Clearchus the Lacedaemonian exile · Clearchus the Laconian · your father
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Anabasis
Lacedaemonian exile and Greek mercenary general in Cyrus' service.
After him Clearchus said merely this:
At that time Clearchus narrowly escaped being stoned to death;
Clearchus escaped to his own army and at once called his troops to arms;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Lacedaemonian officer appointed to lead the planned expedition to the Hellespont.
) and, lastly, to go to the Hellespont, where Clearchus, son of Ramphias, was appointed to the command.
They were instructed on their arrival at Miletus to co-operate in the arrangement of all other affairs, as should be best, and to despatch these vessels—either just the number, more, or fewer—to the Hellespont to join Pharnabazus, should they think proper, appointing to the command of them Clearchus the son of Ramphias, who sailed out with them;
and therefore they sent Clearchus the son of Ramphias with forty ships to Pharnabazus, in accordance with the original orders from the Peloponnese.
The Rights of War and Peace
Spartan general whose reported observation, transmitted by Xenophon, warns against acting from fear alone.
Clearchus, in Xenophon, says, I have known some men, who partly through misrepresentation, and partly through suspicion, dreading one another, in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties against those who neither designed, nor wished them any harm.
The Greeks under the command of Clearchus, said, “we are upon the way to our home, if no one interrupt us;
Stromata
Peripatetic author cited on a Jew who associated with Aristotle.
And Clearchus the Peripatetic says he knew a certain Jew who associated with Aristotle.
Against Leptines
Person rewarded with citizenship because of Timotheus.
and again, when giving your reward to Timotheus, you also for his sake rewarded Clearchus and some others with the citizenship;
For the Liberty of the Rhodians
A figure associated with the King's internal struggle over his crown.
And even that success has not benefited him, but you will find him at one and the same time using the Lacedaemonians to cripple our city, and struggling for his own crown against Clearchus and Cyrus.
Orations
Spartan general sworn to by Tissaphernes and betrayed
Did not Tissaphernes swear to Clearchus and his men?
On the Peace
A commander dispatched by the Lacedaemonians against the Persian King.
on the contrary, although the great King had furnished them with more than five thousand talents for the war against us, and although the Chians had supported them more zealously than any of their other allies by means of their fleet and the Thebans had contributed a great number of troops to their land forces, the Lacedaemonians no sooner gained the supremacy than they straightway plotted against …
Panathenaicus
The commander appointed over the army dispatched in support of Cyrus.
And yet, after they had given these pledges both to our allies and to the King and had conquered us in war, they reduced those whom they had sworn to set free to a state of slavery worse than that of the Helots, and they returned the favour of the King in such wise that they persuaded Cyrus, his younger brother, to dispute the throne with him, and collected an army to support Cyrus, placing Clearc …
To Philip
The Greek commander in Cyrus' expedition, whose success and death are used to argue that Philip can do more.
I mean those who took the field with Cyrus and Clearchus.
It is true that if I were making an epideictic speech I should try to avoid scrupulously all such repetitions;
But next in order I think that I should speak of the war-strength which will he available to you as compared with that which Clearchus and his followers had.
To Timotheus
Timotheus' father, remembered as harsh after gaining power despite earlier humane qualities.
And do not marvel that I am so ready to write to you, though I never made any request of your father Clearchus.
I think that the reports which have been noised abroad about your father will also contribute a great deal of credibility to the general opinion of your good judgement and superiority to all others;
The wealth which could only have been acquired forcibly and despotically and at the cost of much hatred, has been left to you by your father, but to use it honorably and for the good of mankind has devolved upon you;