Cycliadas

Cycliadas(Ancient Greek:Κυκλιάδας) was an ancient Greek statesman and general. He was the son of Damaretos ofPharaeinAchaea.Elected asstrategosof theAchaean Leaguein 208 BC, he joinedPhilip V of MacedonatDymewith the Achaean forces, and aided him in his invasion ofElis.In 200 BC, Cycliadas being made strategos instead ofPhilopoemen,theSpartankingNabistook advantage of the change to make war on the Achaeans. Philip offered to help them, and to carry the war into the enemy's country, if they would give him a sufficient number of their soldiers to garrisonChalcis,OreusandCorinthin the meantime. The Achaeans, however, mistrusted Philip and suspected that it was a ploy to obtain hostages from them and so to force them into a war with theRomans.Cycliadas therefore answered, that their laws precluded them from discussing any proposal except that for which the assembly was summoned. In 199/8 BC, Cycliadas was expelled as a result of his position as leader of the pro-Macedonian party.In 198 BC he was an exile at the court of Philip, whom he attended in that year at his conference withFlamininusatNicaeain Locris.

After theBattle of Cynoscephalaein 197 BC, Cycliadas was sent with Demosthenes and Limnaeus as ambassador from Philip to Flamininus, who granted the king a truce of 15 days with a view to the arrangement of a permanent peace.

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Smith, William,ed. (1870). "Cycliadas".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.