Hegesistratus

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Hegesistratus ({{langx|grc|Ἡγησίστρατος}}) is an ancient Greek name. Some people with this name were:

1. A Greek diviner for Mardonius during the Greco-Persian Wars. Originally an Elean, he had been captured by the Spartans and put in bonds. He escaped by cutting off a piece of his own foot and replaced it with a wooden one; however, he was captured again at Zacynthus and put to death. This story is mentioned in the ninth book (chapter 37) of the Histories written by Herodotus.Herodotus, Histories, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+9.37&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126 9. 37. 1 - 4]
2. An emissary from Samos to the Greeks before the Battle of Mycale.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:entry=hegesistratus&highlight=hegesistratus Hegesistratus], Perseus Encyclopedia.
3. A despot of Sigeum.
4. An Ephesian committed a murder in his family, and fled to Delphi; on consulting the oracle what place to settle in, the answer was, that when he should come to a place where he should see the country people dancing with garlands of olive-leaves, he should settle there. He travelled and found what the oracle told him, and there built the city Elaeus.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg085.perseus-grc1:41 Plutarch, Parallela minora, 41]
5. Democritus was the son of Hegesistratus, though some say of Athenocritus, and others of Damasippus.[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0004.tlg001.perseus-grc1:9.7 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers]
6. The governor of Miletus, during the Siege of Miletus by Alexander the Great.