Demoteles
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Demoteles the herald
in the texts
Against Conon
The father of Archebiades.
Since, however, he was convicted on all these points before the arbitrator, just as he is now, and proved manifestly guilty of all the charges against him, he puts into the box a false deposition, and writes at the head of it as witnesses the names of people whom I think you will know well when you hear them— Diotimus, son of Diotimus, of Icaria, Archebiades, son of Demoteles, of Halae, Chaeretimu …
History of the Peloponnesian War
Locrian commander of the garrison left in Messana who repels the Leontine and Athenian attack.
But the Messanians, and some Locrians with Demoteles, who after its disaster had been left in it as a garrison, suddenly fell upon them, and routed the greater part of the Leontine troops, and slew many of them.
Hellenica
Herald sent by Archidamus to carry news of the Tearless Battle victory back to Sparta.
Then as soon as the battle had ended and he had set up a trophy, he immediately sent home Demoteles, the herald, to report the greatness of his victory and the fact that not so much as one of the Lacedaemonians had been slain, while vast numbers of the enemy had fallen.