Proxenus
historical figure · 6 works · 16 mentions · 21 anchored passages
Proxenus the Boeotian · Proxenus our general · Proxenus the Pellenean · Proxenus the Theban · the father of Dicaeogenes (III.) · the general Proxenus
spoken of as
1 expressionProxenus the Pellenean1 mention
Hellenica (Greek)
when they had made a prisoner of Proxenus, the Pellenean, even though they were in want of everything, they let him go without a ransom.
in the texts
Anabasis
Greek commander whose troops intervene between quarrelling parties and who later stands near Clearchus in battle formation.
On the third stage he held a review of the Greeks and the barbarians on the plain at about midnight;
Thereupon they proceeded in great haste to take their places, Clearchus occupying the right end of the Greek wing, close to the Euphrates river, Proxenus next to him, and the others beyond Proxenus, while Menon and his army took the left end of the Greek wing.
But Proxenus—for he chanced to be now coming up, later than the others, with a battalion of hoplites following him—straightway led his troops into the space between the two parties, halted them under arms, and began to beg Clearchus not to proceed with his attack.
Hellenica
The brother of Hermocrates who accompanies him on the embassy toward the Persian King.
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.
when, however, they had set forth for battle, they killed Proxenus and a few others along with him, but although they put the rest to flight they did not pursue them;
Among the Tegeans, on the other hand, the followers of Callibius and Proxenus were making efforts to the end that all the people of Arcadia should unite, and that whatever measure was carried in the common assembly should be binding on the several cities as well;
On the False Embassy
A figure in the area whom Demosthenes says could have aided Philip or the Phocians if policy had been honest.
But if there had been any honesty in the letters, it was clearly the duty of these men to exhort you to take the field, and to propose that Proxenus, whom they knew to be in those parts, should at once march to the aid of Philip.
He makes no such proposal as that the Amphictyonic Council should be convened, or that operations should be suspended until it meets, or that Proxenus should march against the Phocians, or that the Athenians should take the field.
Whatever he may say just now about the Phocians or the Lacedaemonians or Hegesippus,—that they did not receive Proxenus, that they are irreligious, that they are—anything he can say to their disadvantage,—surely all that was finished and done with before the return of the envoys to Athens, and therefore could not have stood in the way of the deliverance of the Phocians.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
One of the three children Neaera brought with her from Megara to Athens, whom Stephanus promised to introduce as citizens.
So he brought her with him from Megara to Athens, and with her her three children, Proxenus and Ariston and a daughter whom they now call Phano.
for these women know perfectly well that Proxenus, who died, Ariston, who is still living, and Antidorides the runner, and Phano, formerly called Strybel, who married Theogenes, the king, are children of Neaera.
Apollodorus is ready to receive for examination by the torture the women-servants of Neaera, Thratta and Coccalinê, whom she brought with her from Megara, and those whom she subsequently purchased while living with Stephanus—Xennis, namely, and Drosis—women who have accurate knowledge regarding the children of Neaera, that they are not by Stephanus.
On the Embassy
An Athenian general named in a decree concerning Thermopylae posts and in a letter read as evidence.
Letter
but on the very day when you were discussing the question of the peace, the letter of Proxenus was read to you, in which he said that the Phocians had failed to hand over the posts to him;
But when you had passed a decree that the Phocians should hand over these posts to your general Proxenus, and that you should man fifty triremes, and that all citizens up to the age of forty years should take part in the expedition, then instead of surrendering the Posts to Proxenus, the tyrants arrested those ambassadors of their own who had offered to hand over the garrison posts to you and when …
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
Father of Dicaeogenes (III.), who first produced the will making his son the adopted heir to one-third of Dicaeogenes (II.)'s estate.
Under the old will, which Proxenus, the father of Dicaeogenes (III.
He died without issue, and Proxenus, the father of Dicaeogenes (III.
), who had no children but left four sisters behind him, Proxenus came forward and produced a will by which the deceased Dicaeogenes (II.