Hermocrates
historical figure · 2 works · 12 mentions · 28 anchored passages
Hermocrates son of Hermon · Hermocrates the Syracusan · Hermocrates, the son of Hermon
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Syracusan statesman whose speech persuades the assembled Sicilian cities to make peace and expel the Athenian expedition.
And in this way war is not terminated by war, but our quarrels are ended without trouble by peace;
"With regard to the Athenians then, so great is found to be the benefit of our taking good advice.
all of us who are neighbours, and live together in one country, and that an island, and are called by the one name of Sicilians.
Hellenica
An exiled Syracusan general and orator who speaks for his fellow banished commanders, cultivates a following among the fleet's officers, and later seeks Persian support for his own restoration.
but in particular those who had associated with Hermocrates felt exceedingly the loss of his care and enthusiasm and democratic spirit.
As a result of this Hermocrates enjoyed the greatest reputation in the general council, and was thought superior to all others as speaker and adviser.
ambassadors of the Lacedaemonians also went along, Pasippidas and others, and with them Hermocrates, who was already an exile from Syracuse, and his brother Proxenus.