(Εὐπομπίδας), son of Daimachus, one of the commanders in Plataea during its siege by the Lacedaemonians, B. C. 429-8. He with Theaenetus, a prophet, in the winter following this second year, devised the celebrated plan for passing the lines of circumvallation, which, originally intended for the whole number of the besieged,
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was in the end successfully executed by 212 of them, under the guidance of the same two leaders. (Thuc. 3.20_23.) [A.H.C]