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Hege'lochus

(Ἡγέλοχος.)

1. Commander of the Athenian forces, which successfully protected the fields of the Mantineians from the Theban and Thessalian cavalry, when Epaminondas threatened the city in B. C. 362. The name of the Athenian commander is not mentioned by Xenophon, but is supplied by Diodorus. (Xen. Hell.7.5. §§ 15-17 ; Diod. 15.84; Plut. de Glor. Ath. 2.)