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    Tolmides

    historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Tolmides the Elean · Tolmides the herald · Tolmides, the herald · herald

    in the texts

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    An Elean herald, described as the best herald of his time.

    Clearchus, however, directed Tolmides the Elean, who chanced to be with him as herald and was the best herald of his time, to make this proclamation, after he had ordered silence:
    chapter 2
    And let us make sure, he added, that Tolmides, the herald, is present.
    chapter 3
    Then Xenophon ordered Tolmides the herald to proclaim that whoever wanted to get any plunder should go in.
    chapter 5

    On the EmbassyClassical · Greek

    An earlier Athenian general remembered for boldly marching a thousand picked men through hostile Peloponnesian territory.

    I urged that we should emulate the battle that we fought at Plataea, the struggles off the shores of Salamis, the battles of Marathon and Artemisium, and the generalship of Tolmides, who with a thousand picked men of the Athenians fearlessly marched straight through the Peloponnesus, the enemy’s country.
    on the embassy

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Athenian commander under whom a force called 'the Thousand' suffered a disaster at Lebadea, cited as a cause of Boeotia's rising power.

    But, you see, since the disasters sustained by Tolmides and the Thousand at Lebadea and by Hippocrates at Delium, the relations of the Athenians and Boeotians are changed:
    chapter 3