Patrocles
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Patrocli Proper-name noun: masculine dative singular of Patrocles
(Πατροκλῆς).
1. A Macedonian general in the service of Seleucuis I., king of Syria, by whom he was appointed to command at Babylon, soon after he had recovered possession of that city, B. C. 312.
On the advance of Demetrius, Patrocles being unable to face that monarch in the field, withdrew beyond the Tigris, whither Demetrius did not think fit to follow him. (Diod. 19.100.) Of his subsequent operations in that quarter we know nothing. His name next appears as one of the friends and counsellors of Seleucus in the war against Demetrius, B. C. 286 (Plut. Demetr.47): and again in 280, after the death of Seleucus, we find him entrusted by Antiochus I. with the chief command of his army, and the conduct of the war in Asia. (Memnon. 100.15, ed. Orell.) We are also told that Patrocles held, both under Seleucus and Antiochus, an important government over some of the eastern provinces of the Syrian empire, including apparently those bordering on the Caspian Sea, and extending from thence towards the frontiers 3f India. (Strab. ii. pp. 69, 74.) Works Geographical Information
During the period of his holding this position, he seems to have been at much pains to collect accurate geographical information, which he afterwards published to the world; but though his authority is frequently cited by Strabo, who as well as Eratosthenes placed the utmost reliance on his accuracy, neither the title nor exact subject of his work is ever mentioned.
It seems clear, however, that it included a general account of India, as well as of the countries on the banks of the Oxuts and the Caspian Sea. Strabo expressly calls him the most veracious (ἥκιστα ψευδόλογος) of all writers concerning India (ii. p. 70); and it appears that in addition to the advantages of his official situation, he had made use of a regular description of the eastern provinces of the empire, drawn up by command of Alexander himself. (lb. p. 69.) In this work Patrocles regarded the Caspian Sea as a gulf or inlet of the ocean, and maintained the possibility of sailing thither by sea from the Indian Ocean; a statement strangely misinterpreted by Pliny, who asserts (H. N. 6.17 (21)), that Patrocles had himself performed the circumnavigation. Further Information
Concerning the authority of Patrocles as a geographical writer, see Strabo ii. pp. 68, 69, 70, 74, xi. pp. 508, 509, 518, xv. p. 689; Voss. de Histor. Graecis, p.] 13; Ukert, Geogr. vol. i. p. 122.
2. Of Antigoneia, an officer of Perseus, king of Macedonia. (Liv. 42.58.) [E.H.B]
(Πατροκλῆς).
1. Of Thurii, a tragic poet, was perhaps contemporary with the younger Sophocles, about the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth centuries B. C. (Clem. Alex. Protrep. 2.30, p. 9, Sylb.) Besides the mention of his Dioscuri in the above passage, and seven lines of his, preserved by Stobaeus (111.3), we have no information concerning him.
2. A teacher of rhetoric, mentioned by Quintilian (2.15, 16, 3.6, 44). [P.S]
(Πατροκλῆς), artists.
1. A statuary, who is placed by Pliny (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19), with Naucydes, Deinomenes, and Canachos II., at the 95th Olympiad, B. C. 400, which exactly agrees with the statement of Pausanias, that he made some of the statues in the great group dedicated by the Lacedaemonians at Delphi, in memory of the victory of Aegospotami (Panus. 10.9.4). Pliny mentions him among the artists who made athletas et armatos et venatores sacrificantesque (l.c. § 34). Pausanias mentions a son and disciple of Pitrocles, named Daedalus, who flourished at the very same time as his father [Daedalus, No. 2]. Since Daedalus is called by Pausanias a Sicyonian, Sillig supposes that Patrocles was of the same state. Thiersch (Epochen, p. 125) suggests the ingenious, but unfounded idea, tllat he was the same person as Patrocles, the half-brother of Socrates on the mother's side: surely, if so, he would not have employed his art in celebrating the ruin of his own city ! It is more probable that he was one and the same person with the following artist:--
2. Of Croton, a statuary, son of Catillus, made the statue of Apollo of box-wood, with a gilded head, which the Epizephyrian Locrians dedicated at Olympia (Paus. 6.19.3). [P.S]
(Πατροκλῆς). A Macedonian general in the service of Seleucus I. and Antiochus I., kings of Syria. Patrocles held, both under Seleucus and Antiochus, an important government over some of the eastern provinces of the Syrian Empire. During the period of his holding this position, he collected accurate geographical information, which he afterwards published to the world; but though he is frequently cited by Strabo, who placed the utmost reliance on his accuracy, neither the title nor exact subject of his work is mentioned. It seems clear, however, that it included a general account of India as well as of the countries on the banks of the Oxus and the Caspian Sea. Patrocles regarded the Caspian Sea as a gulf or inlet of the ocean, and maintained the possibility of sailing thither by sea from the Indian Ocean (Strabo, ii. p. 69).
- Paus. 6.3.4, Paus. 10.9.10
- sculptor of Crotona: Paus. 6.19.6