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Heracleides (409 BC)

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Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης), son of Aristogenes, was a Syracusan from Magna Graecia who was one of the commanders of the Syracusan squadron sent to co-operate with the Lacedaemonians and their allies. He joined Tissaphernes at Ephesus just in time to take part in the defeat of the Athenians under Thrasyllus in 409 BC.

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  1. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.2.8, &c.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBunbury, Edward Herbert (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 387.

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