Chabrias

Chabrias (Greek: Χαβρίας; bef. 420–357 BC) was an Athenian general active in the first half of the 4th century BC. During his career he was involved in several battles, both on land and sea.  The orator Demosthenes described him as one of the most successful commanders Athens ever had:

To sum up the whole: he is the only general who never lost a single city or post or ship or soldier, when he commanded you: none of your enemies has any trophy over you and him, while you have many over many enemies under his command.[1]

Chabrias
Chabrias (left) with Spartan king Agesilaus (center), in the service of Egyptian king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos, Egypt 361 BC.
BornAixone, Athens (now Glyfada)
Died357
Chios
Allegiance(Ancient) Athens
Battles/warsSocial War

Notes
  1. Demosthenes, Against the Law of Leptines, xx.78.
  2. Davies, J. K. (1971). Athenian Propertied Families. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 560–1.
  3. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, (D.S.) xiv.92.1-2
  4. Xenophon, Hellenika, v.1.10-12.
  5. D.S., xv.29.3-4.
  6. Xenophon, v.4.14.
  7. D.S. xv.31-32.
  8. Cornelius Nepos, Lives of the Eminent Commanders (C.N.), xii.1.
  9. D.S., xv.30.5
  10. Xenophon, v.4.60-61.
  11. D.S., xv.35.1-2
  12. D.S., xv.36.
  13. Pseudo-Demosthenes, Against Neaira, lix.33.
  14. Xenophon, vi.4.4-16; D.S., xv.53-56.
  15. D.S., xv.66.
  16. Xenophon, vi.5.33-49.
  17. D.S., xv.68 ff.
  18. D.S., xv.69.2-4.
  19. Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Myth, vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. p. 578.
  20. D.S., xv.92.
  21. Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, xxiii.171-2
  22. C.N., iv.

References
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