Macarius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Letters
Co-addressee of Letter 18, encouraged about hope amid affliction.
To Macarius and John
and at Myra the presbyters Tatianus and Polemo and Macarius;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan co-commander of the relief force who dies alongside Eurylochus at Olpae.
The next day Menedaeus, who on the death of Eurylochus and Macarius had succeeded to the sole command, was at a loss, since so great a defeat had been experienced, to see in what way he should either remain and sustain a siege—cut off as he was by land, and at the same time, through the presence of the Athenian fleet, by sea—or should escape if he retreated.
Eurylochus, a Spartan, had the command of the force, accompanied by Macarius and Menedaeus, who were also Spartans;