Coeratadas
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Coeratadas the Theban
in the texts
Anabasis
Theban adventurer seeking a generalship who briefly wins the army's acceptance but cannot supply it.
for Anaxibius said it was not well to have the soldiers close by the wall and Xenophon within it;
And Coeratadas made an agreement with them that he would join the army on the next day with sacrificial victims and a soothsayer, as well as food and drink for the troops.
When it proved, however, that his supply fell far short of amounting to a day’s food for each of the soldiers, he took his victims and went away, renouncing his generalship.
Hellenica
The Boeotian commander within besieged Byzantium who is left in charge with Helixus, surrenders when the city falls, and escapes captivity at Piraeus.
but when they found that the enemy were masters everywhere and that they could do nothing, they surrendered themselves.
They were all sent off to Athens, and as they were disembarking at Piraeus, Coeratadas slipped away in the crowd and made his escape to Decelea.
Within Byzantium was Clearchus the Lacedaemonian, its governor, and with him some Laconian Perioeci, a few emancipated Helots, a contingent of Megarians, under the command of Helixus the Megarian, and one of Boeotians, under the command of Coeratadas.