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.
Hermocrates having spoken to this effect, the Sicilians agreed amongst themselves in a determination to have done with the war, retaining their several possessions, but that Morgantina should be ceded to the Camarinaeans on their paying a stipulated sum of money to the Syracusans.
"And now, on account of our indefinite fear of this unknown future, and our immediate dread of the Athenians' presence, being alarmed on both these grounds, and thinking, with regard to any failure in our ideas of what we severally thought to achieve, that these obstacles are a sufficient bar to their fulfilment, let us send away from the country the enemy that is amongst us, and ourselves make pe …
And with regard to peace, which is acknowledged by all to be a most excellent thing, how can it fail to be incumbent on us to conclude it amongst ourselves?
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.
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.
Accordingly they called together their soldiers and, through Hermocrates as spokesman, lamented their misfortune in being unjustly and illegally banished, all without exception.
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.