Xenias
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Xenias of Parrhasia · Xenias the Arcadian
in the texts
Anabasis
Greek mercenary commander associated with Cyrus, later one of the generals who deserts at Myriandus.
Xenias and Pasion have deserted us.
Xenias, then, arrived at Sardis with the troops from the cities, who were hoplites to the number of four thousand;
and Xenias the Arcadian and Pasion the Megarian embarked upon a ship, put on board their most valuable effects, and sailed away;
Hellenica
Wealthy Elean, said to have measured out his inherited money with a bushel measure, who led the pro-Spartan faction's failed coup attempt.
Now while the country was being ravaged and the Lacedaemonian army was in the neighbourhood of Cyllene, the party of Xenias—the man of whom it was said that he measured out with a bushel measure the money he received from his father—wishing to have their city go over to the Lacedaemonians and to receive the credit for this, rushed out of a house, armed with swords, and began a slaughter;