User:Anaxibios

From Voice of the Proletariat

Anaxibios (pronounced Ana-XEE-beeos) is a thoroughly unpleasant historical character portrayed in Xenophon's Anabasis, a Spartan governor of Byzantium cheating a large mercenary army out of their pay and all but condemning them to death of starvation and exposure:

"Well then," said Xenophon, "we will go and arrange all this with Anaxibios." They went and stated the case to the admiral, who insisted that they must do as he had said, and march out, bag and baggage, by the quickest road; and as an appendix to the former edict, he added, "Any one absenting himself from the review and the muster will have himself to blame for the consequences." This was peremptory. So they marched out, the generals first, and then the rest. And this time, with the exception of a man here and there, they were all outside the walls; it was a "clean sweep"; and Eteonikos stood posted near the gates, ready to close them, as soon as the men were fairly out, and to thrust in the bolt pin.

Then Anaxibios summoned the generals and captains, and addressed them: "Provisions you must obtain as best you can from Thracian villages; you will find plenty of barley, wheat, and other necessaries in them; and when you have got them, off with you to the Chersonese, where Kyniskos will take you into his service."

I'm actually a classical scholar from Copenhagen, Denmark. I generally hang out in threads dealing with matters of culture, history and language - and often at "night", seeing as I am on a different time zone from most of bN.

This is, according to some, what I look like when you say the words "Palpatine Hill":

Drawing of a votive relief set up by a certain Wanaxibios at the temple of Athena Chalkioikos ("of the brazen temple") in Sparta, c. 6th century BC:

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