Androsthenes of Thessaly
Androsthenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόσθενης) of Thessaly was called by Julius Caesar the praetor of the country (by which he means merely the military commander). He shut the gates of Gomfoi against Caesar in 48 BCE, after Caesar's defeat at the hands of Pompey in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.[1]
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- ^ Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili iii. 80
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Androsthenes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. pp. 176–177.
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