Tamos
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Tamos the Egyptian
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Anabasis (Greek)
They had been guided from Ephesus to Issus by Tamos the Egyptian, who was at the head of another fleet of twenty-five ships belonging to Cyrus —these latter being the ships with which Tamos had besieged Miletus, at the time when it was friendly to Tissaphernes, and had supported Cyrus in his war upon Tissaphernes.
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Lieutenant-governor of Ionia who cooperates with Astyochus.
Tamos also, who was lieutenant-governor of Ionia, united in this command.
(at any rate Tamos, who was intrusted with the charge, provided them with supplies no better, but even worse, than himself.
saying, that with regard to the armament, he would appoint Tamos as his lieutenant, to furnish the supplies while he was himself absent.
Anabasis
Father of Glus.
When they were on the point of setting out, and just as the sun was rising, came Procles, the ruler of Teuthrania, a descendant of Damaratus, the Laconian, and with him Glus, the son of Tamos.
They had been guided from Ephesus to Issus by Tamos the Egyptian, who was at the head of another fleet of twenty-five ships belonging to Cyrus —these latter being the ships with which Tamos had besieged Miletus, at the time when it was friendly to Tissaphernes, and had supported Cyrus in his war upon Tissaphernes.
On the following day, however, a messenger came with word that Syennesis had abandoned the heights, because he had learned that Menon’s army was already in Cilicia, on his own side of the mountains, and because, further, he was getting reports that triremes belonging to the Lacedaemonians and to Cyrus himself were sailing around from Ionia to Cilicia under the command of Tamos.