Aracus (navarch)
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Aracus (
navarchy) of the Spartan fleet, with Lysander as his secretary (epistoleus
) or deputy. Lysander held the actual command of the fleet, and had only been assigned a position subordinate to Aracus because Spartan law did not allow the same man to hold the office of navarch twice.
In 398 BC, Aracus led a commission to inspect Sparta's conquests in
Asia Minor, to prolong the command of Dercylidas, and to negotiate with the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II, though his mission failed completely. In 369 BC, he was one of the ambassadors sent to Athens
, at which he had greater success.
References
- Judeich, Walther (1895), "Arakos 1", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, volume 2, part 1, column 375.
- ISBN 0-8014-1935-2.
- Smith, William, ed. (1870). . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. p. 254.