Pedaritus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Pedaritus son of Leon
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan officer appointed to command at Chios, sent overland to Erythrae with mercenary reinforcements.
Pedaritus the son of Leon, who had been sent by the Lacedaemonians to take the command at Chios, they despatched by land to Erythrae, with the mercenary force taken from Amorges, and appointed Philippus to remain on the spot, as governor of Miletus.
They, however, did not listen to them, and Pedaritus refused to give up to him the ships of the Chians.
and when he did not listen to them, Pedaritus sent a letter to Lacedaemon, representing him as being guilty of a misdemeanor.
Archidamus
A Lacedaemonian commander cited as saving Chios.
Pedaritus, sailing to Chios, saved that city;