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    Hagnon

    historical figure · 4 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    Hagnon son of Nicias

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Athenian commander, colleague of Pericles, who led reinforcements (with co-commander Cleopompus son of Clinias) against Potidaea; his expedition was devastated by the plague, losing fifteen hundred of four thousand heavy-armed, before he returned to Athens.

    Hagnon therefore returned with his ships to Athens, having lost by the plague fifteen hundred out of four thousand heavy-armed, in about forty days.
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    The same summer Hagnon son of Nicias, and Cleopompus son of Clinias, who were colleagues with Pericles, took the army which he had employed, and went straightway on an expedition against the Chalcidians Thrace-ward, and Potidaea, which was still being besieged:
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    for the plague attacked them, and this indeed utterly overpowered them there, wasting their force to such a degree, that even the soldiers of the Athenians who were there before were infected with it by the troops which came with Hagnon, though previously they had been in good health.
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    LucullusHellenistic · Latin

    Pupil of Carneades noted for genius.

    Of these the greatest industry was in Clitomachus (the multitude of his books declares it), no less genius in Hagnon, eloquence in Charmadas, charm in Melanthius of Rhodes;
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    On the Estate of NicostratusClassical · Greek

    First cousin of Nicostratus (through his father's brother) who, together with his brother Hagnotheus, claims Nicostratus's estate by right of kinship; client of the speaker Isaeus.

    Hagnon here and Hagnotheus, gentlemen, are intimate friends of mine, as was their father before them.
    on the estate of nicostratus
    They have produced before you witnesses to prove, first, that they and Nicostratus are first cousins, the sons of own brothers;
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    Nicostratus having died in a foreign land, Hagnon and Hagnotheus, as being his first cousins (their father having been brother to Nicostratus's father), contend for the succession to his estate against Chariades, who claims to be heir by bequest, that is to say, by will.
    on the estate of nicostratus

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Father of Theramenes, invoked by Critias to characterize his son's political inconstancy.

    This man in the beginning, although he had received honours at the hands of the democracy, was extremely eager, like his father Hagnon, to change the democracy into the oligarchy of the Four Hundred, and he was a leader in that government.
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