A general of the Corinthians, who called
Themistocles a city-less man. But he said "Who [is] city-less, when he has 200 triremes?".[1]
Plato, too, mentions this man in the
Protagoras.[2] For he was one of those serving as general in those times. Mocked for their wickedness were Kleon,[3] Myrmex[4] and Nikomachos[5] and Archemoros[6] along with Adeimantos the son of Leukolophos.[7]
*)adei/mantos: *korinqi/wn strathgo\s, o(\s a)/polin ei)=pe to\n *qemistokle/a. o( de\, ti/s, ei)=pen, a)/polis, e)/xwn s1# trih/reis. tou/tou kai\ *pla/twn me/mnhtai e)n tw=| *prwtago/ra|. h)=n ga\r tw=n peri\ tou\s kairou\s tou/tous strathgou/ntwn. e)kwmw|dou=nto de\ e)pi\ ponhri/a| *kle/wn, *mu/rmhc kai\ *niko/maxos kai\ *)arxe/moros met' *)adeima/ntou tou= *leukolo/fou.
[1] From an intermediate source -- also used, in Adler's opinion (whose addenda cites FGrH 104 for comparison), at
alpha 1280 and elsewhere -- going back ultimately to
Herodotus 8.61 (web address 1 below), on the prelude to the battle of
Salamis (480 BCE).
[2]
Plato,
Protagoras 315E (web address 2 below). This mentions two men called Adeimantos, both of them
Athenians of the
late C5 BCE (and so neither of them the Corinthian general from
Herodotus): A. the son of Kepis and A. the son of Leukolophides. The latter, much the better-attested of the two (R. Develin,
Athenian Officials 684-321 BC (Cambridge 1989) no.31), was an elected Athenian general in 407, 406 and 405; and it is he who is referred to in the remainder of the present entry, which draws on the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1504-1513 (web address 3 for the text of
Aristophanes).
[3] An error for Kleophon (Develin no.1672).
[4] Not otherwise known. (Perhaps anyway a nickname; cf.
mu 1445.)
[5] Develin no.2140.
[6] cf.
alpha 4085 -- but in fact another error: for Archenomos (otherwise unknown).
[7] (See above, n.2; the Suda takes over this foreshortened version of his patronymic from
Aristophanes.) The name Adeimantos is particularly suited to comedy because it can be construed as General Dauntless; cf.
alpha 452.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented and modified notes) on 19 March 2001@04:44:34.
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 13 August 2006@08:45:51.
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