Herippidas
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
Hellenica
A Spartan officer who serves as one of the commissioners receiving Tissaphernes's truce oath and later succeeds Lysander's contingent, taking command of the Cyrean veterans.
Meanwhile the year had now ended since the time when Agesilaus had set sail from Greece, so that Lysander and the thirty Spartiatae sailed back home, and Herippidas with his thirty came as their successors.
After this agreement had been reached, Tissaphernes made oath to the commissioners who were sent to him, Herippidas, Dercylidas, and Megillus, that in very truth and without guile he would negotiate the peace, and they in turn made oath on behalf of Agesilaus to Tissaphernes that in very truth, if he did this, Agesilaus would steadfastly observe the truce.
And as soon as they came in, Herippidas said:
Agesilaus
Commander of mercenary troops participating in the battle of Coronea.
The distance between them was still about one hundred yards when the mercenary troops under Herippidas, consisting of the men who had gone with Agesilaus from home and some of the Cyreians, dashed out in turn from their main body, closely followed by Ionians, Aeolians and Hellespontines.