Protomachus
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
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Hellenica
One of the ten new Athenian generals chosen after the defeat at Notium.
When the Athenians at home got the news of the battle at Notium, they were angry with Alcibiades, thinking that he had lost the ships through neglect of duty and dissolute conduct, and they chose ten new generals, Conon, Diomedon, Leon, Pericles, Erasinides, Aristocrates, Archestratus, Protomachus, Thrasyllus, and Aristogenes.
and the right wing was under the command of Protomachus, with fifteen ships;
As for those generals who had taken part in the battle, two of them—Protomachus and Aristogenes—did not return to Athens, but when the other six came home—
Against Eubulides
The first husband of the speaker's mother, a poor man who later became entitled to an estate and who arranged for her to marry the speaker's father Thucritus.
Protomachus was a poor man, but becoming entitled to inherit a large estate by marrying an heiress, and wishing to give my mother in marriage, he persuaded my father Thucritus, an acquaintance of his, to take her, and my father received my mother in marriage at the hands of her brother Timocrates of Melitê, in the presence of both his own uncles and other witnesses;
My mother, men of the jury, first married Protomachus, to whom she was given by Timocrates, her brother born of the same father and the same mother;
it was Protomachus,and he had by her a son, and a daughter whom he gave in marriage.