Thibron
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
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Anabasis
Lacedaemonian commander preparing war against Tissaphernes and seeking the mercenary army.
they said that the Lacedaemonians had resolved to undertake a campaign against Tissaphernes, that Thibron had set sail to wage the war, and that he wanted this army;
He likewise said, making a great secret of it, that he had heard from Polynicus that if Xenophon should fall into the hands of the Lacedaemonians, he would certainly be put to death by Thibron.
His friends in the camp, however, came to him and begged him not to depart until he should lead the army away and turn it over to Thibron.
Hellenica
Lacedaemonian governor sent to protect the Greek cities of Asia, later condemned and banished for allowing his troops to plunder allied territory.
Accordingly, the Lacedaemonians sent them Thibron as governor, giving him an army made up of a thousand emancipated Helots and four thousand of the other Peloponnesians.
Now while he was at the head of this army, Thibron did not venture to descend to level ground, because he saw the enemy’s cavalry, but was satisfied if he could keep the particular territory where he chanced to be from being ravaged.
When, however, the men who had made the march up country with Cyrus joined forces with him after their safe return, from that time on he would draw up his troops against Tissaphernes even on the plains, and he got possession of cities, Pergamus by voluntary surrender, and likewise Teuthrania and Halisarna, two cities which were under the rule of Eurysthenes and Procles, the descendants of Demaratus the Lacedaemonian;