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Headword:
Xenikon
en
Korinthôi
Adler number: xi,33
Translated headword: mercenary-force in Corinth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes in [the]
Philippics and
Aristophanes [mention it].[1]
Conon[2] set it up first, Iphikrates[3] took it up later, and [so did] Chabrias;[4] using this he[5] massacred the Spartans' division, when Iphikrates was their general and [so was] Kallikles.[6]
Greek Original:Xenikon en Korinthôi: Dêmosthenês Philippikois kai Aristophanês. sunestêsato d' auto prôtos Konôn, parelabe d' auto Iphikratês husteron kai Chabrias: hôi chrêsamenos tên Lakedaimoniôn moiran katekopsen, stratêgountos autois Iphikratous kai Kallikleous.
Notes:
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v., where historiographical sources are also cited (
Androtion FGrH 324 F48;
Philochorus FGrH 328 F150).
[1]
Demosthenes 4.24;
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 173.
[2] See under
alpha 3111 (there is no dedicated Konon entry); OCD4
Conon(1).
[3] See
iota 770,
iota 771,
iota 772; OCD4 Iphicrates.
[4] See
chi 1 (for what it is worth); OCD4 Chabrias.
[5] So the transmitted text; but "they" (= the Athenians) in the equivalent entry in Harpokration is clearly correct.
[6] 'Kallias in' Harpokration (again correctly: see R. Develin,
Athenian Officials 684-321 B.C.) (Cambridge 1989) p.213, under the year 39l/390).
H.W. Parke, Greek Mercenary Soldiers (Oxford 1933 and reprints), esp. pp.49-57.
P.Harding (ed.), From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the battle of Ipsus (Cambridge 1985) no.22
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 16 February 2000@14:06:50.
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