Euphron
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 11 anchored passages
in the texts
Hellenica
Sicyonian politician who engineers a democratic revolution with Argive and Arcadian backing, then makes himself tyrant of Sicyon through bribery and violence.
and Euphron also took part in the expedition with his mercenaries, about two thousand in number.
And straightway Euphron made some of these mercenaries faithful to him by treating them generously, and took others into his pay, sparing neither the public nor the sacred funds.
But now Euphron, who had been the most powerful of the citizens in his influence with the Lacedaemonians and wished in like manner to stand first with their adversaries also, said to the Argives and to the Arcadians that if the richest men should remain in control of Sicyon, it was manifest that whenever an opportunity offered, the city would go over to the Lacedaemonians again, while if a democra …