The Macedonian king tried to use the Peloponnesian taskforce against the Lyncestians, a Macedonian tribe that had fallen out with their king, but Brasidas refused to be made a tool for the furtherance of Perdiccas's ambitions he ignored the king's objections and received and negotiated with Arrhabaeus, the leader of the Lyncestians.
Immediately afterwards he marched through Thessaly at the head of 1,700 hoplites (700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian mercenaries ) and joined Perdiccas II of Macedon. In 424 BC, while Brasidas mustered a force at Corinth for a campaign in Thrace, he frustrated an Athenian attack on Megara. As trierarch he distinguished himself in the assault on the Athenian position at the Battle of Pylos, during which he was severely wounded During the following year he seems to have been eponymous ephor, and in 429 BC he was sent out as one of the three commissioners to advise the admiral Cnemus. Biography īrasidas was the son of Tellis (Τέλλις) and Argileonis, and won his first laurels by the relief of Methone, which was besieged by the Athenians (431 BC). Silver ossuary and gold crown of Brasidas in the Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis.
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