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CHABRIAS (4th century B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 786 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHABRIAS (4th century B.C.)  , a celebrated Athenian general . In 388 B.C. he defeated the Spartans at Aegina and commanded the
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fleet sent to assist
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Evagoras, king of Cyprus, against the Persians . In 378, when Athens entered into an
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alliance with, Thebes against Sparta, he defeated Agesilaus near Thebes . On this occasion he invented a manoeuvre, which consisted in receiving a charge on the
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left knee, with shields resting on the ground and spears pointed against the enemy . In 376 he gained a decisive victory over the Spartan fleet off
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Naxos, but, when he might have destroyed the Spartan fleet, remembering the
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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 Epaminondas before the walls of Corinth . In 366, together with
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Callistratus, he was accused of treachery in advising the surrender of
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Oropus to the Thebans . He was acquitted, and soon after he accepted a command under Tachos, king of
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Egypt, who had revolted against
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Persia . But on the outbreak of the Social War (357) he joined
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Chares in the command of the Athenian fleet . He lost his
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life in an attack on the island of
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Chios . See Cornelius Nepos, Chabrias;
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Xenophon, Hellenica, v . 1-4; Diod .

Sic. xv . 29-34; and C . Rehdantz, Vitae Iphicratis, Chabriae, et Timothei (1845) ;

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art . DELIAN
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LEAGUE, section B, and authorities there quoted .

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