Cleombrotus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
king
in the texts
Hellenica
Lacedaemonian commander sent against Thebes in winter, later contrasted with Agesilaus.
for Cleombrotus dismissed them.
he also gave over to Sphodrias all the money which he chanced to have brought from home and directed him to hire a force of mercenaries besides.
While he was on the homeward way, however, an extraordinary wind beset him, which some indeed augured was a sign foreshadowing what was going to happen.
The Histories
Father of Pausanias and son of Anaxandrides; led the wall-building army away from the Isthmus after a solar omen and died shortly after.
Cleombrotus, Pausanias ' father and Anaxandrides ' son, was no longer living.
The reason for Cleombrotus leading his army away from the Isthmus was that while he was offering sacrifice for victory over the Persian, the sun was darkened in the heavens.