Hermocrates

Hermocrates in Wikipedia

Hermocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμοκράτης) was a general of Syracuse during the Athenians' Sicilian Expedition. The first historical reference to Hermocrates is at the congress of Gela in 424 BC, where he gave a speech demanding the Sicilian Greeks to stop their quarrelling. [1] In 415 BC he proposed a coalition that would even include non-Sicilian c...

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Hermocrătes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ἑρμοκράτης). One of the Syracusan generals, when the Athenians attacked Syracuse, B.C. 414. He was banished by the Syracusans (410 B.C.), and having endeavoured to effect his restoration by force of arms and with the aid of the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, was slain in 407. See Peloponnesian War....

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