Clearchus

[ klee-ahr-kuhs ]

noun

1. died 401 b.c., Spartan general.

Example Sentences

A judge on Friday sentenced 37-year-old Clearchus McCreight of El Paso on aggravated assault convictions in the May 2018 incident in which two people were injured when McCreight shot a gun at their vehicle.

From Washington Times

Xenophon's character-drawing was done in his own way, briefly and in dry-point; yet Clearchus, Proxenus, and Menon are not more subtly distinguished from each other than are Cort�s, Sandoval, and Alvarado.

From Project Gutenberg

Cort�s and his lieutenants are persons whom we actually come to know in the pages of Prescott, just as in the pages of Xenophon we come to know Clearchus and the adventurous generals who, like Cort�s, made their way into the heart of a great empire and faced barbarians in battle.

From Project Gutenberg

Although the dominant position of Lysander had been broken in 403 by King Pausanias, the Spartan government gave him all the support which was possible without going into open war against the king; it caused a partisan of Lysander, Clearchus, condemned to death on account of atrocious crimes which he had committed as governor of Byzantium, to gather an army of mercenaries on the Thracian Chersonesus, and in Thessaly Menon of Pharsalus, head of a party which was connected with Sparta, collected another army.

From Project Gutenberg

Cyrus saw that the decision depended on the fate of the king; he therefore wanted Clearchus, the commander of the Greeks, to take the centre against Artaxerxes.

From Project Gutenberg