Pelopidas

Pelopidas in Wikipedia

Pelopidas (d. 364 BC) was an important Theban statesman and general in Greece. Biography Athlete and warrior He was a member of a distinguished family, and possessed great wealth which he expended on his friends, while content to lead the life of an athlete. In 384 he served in a Theban contingent sent to the support of the Spartans at Mantineia,...

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Pelopĭdas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Πελοπίδας). A Theban general and statesman, son of Hippoclus. He was descended from a noble family, and inherited a large estate, of which he made a liberal use. He lived always in the closest friendship with Epaminondas, to whose simple frugality, as he could not persuade him to share his riches, he is said to have conformed his own mode of life....

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