Anaxibian

Anaxibius (? —389 BC) is a Spartan military leader who participated in the Corinthian war .

In 389 BC e. the Spartans sent him to Abydos to fight the Persians and Athenians . For some time he successfully fought with the Persian satrap Farnabaz and captured many Athenian merchant ships. Fearing to lose what they managed to gain on the Hellespont, the Athenians sent against Anaxibius Iphicrates . Initially, hostilities consisted only in the fact that two armies robbed the territory of cities that sided with their opponents, but then Ifikrat, having guessed where Anaxibius would be held, decided to ambush him. When Anaxibius and his soldiers descended from the mountains, where Iphicrates and his men were waiting for them, the Athenians jumped out of an ambush and rushed to the Spartans, killing Anaxibius and many other enemy soldiers ^[1] .