See also:CHABRIAS (4th See also:century B.C.)
, a celebrated Athenian See also:general
.
In 388 B.C. he defeated the Spartans at See also:Aegina and commanded the See also:fleet sent to assist See also:Evagoras, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Cyprus, against the Persians
.
In 378, when See also:Athens entered into an See also:alliance with, See also:Thebes against See also:Sparta, he defeated Agesilaus near Thebes
.
On this occasion he invented a manoeuvre, which consisted in receiving a See also:charge on the See also:left See also:knee, with See also:shields resting on the ground and spears pointed against the enemy
.
In 376 he gained a decisive victory over the Spartan fleet off See also:Naxos, but, when he might have destroyed the Spartan fleet, remembering the See also:fate of the generals at Arginusae, he delayed to pick up the bodies of his dead
.
Later, when the Athenians changed sides and joined the Spartans, he repulsed See also:Epaminondas before the walls of See also:Corinth
.
In 366, together with See also:Callistratus, he was accused of treachery in advising the surrender of See also:Oropus to the Thebans
.
He was acquitted, and soon after he accepted a command under Tachos, king of See also:Egypt, who had revolted against See also:Persia
.
But on the outbreak of the Social See also:War (357) he joined See also:Chares in the command of the Athenian fleet
.
He lost his See also:life in an attack on the See also:island of See also:Chios
.
See See also:Cornelius See also:Nepos, See also:Chabrias; See also:Xenophon, Hellenica, v
.
1-4; Diod
.
Sic. xv
.
29-34; and C
.
Rehdantz, Vitae Iphicratis, Chabriae, et Timothei (1845) ; See also:art
.
DELIAN See also:LEAGUE, See also:section B, and authorities there quoted
.
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