Aracus (navarch)
Aracus (Ancient Greek: Ἄρακος) was a man of ancient Sparta who served as an ephor in 409 BCE.[1] He was appointed nauarch (ναύαρχος) of the Spartan fleet in 405, with Lysander as his vice-admiral (ἐπιστολεύς); Lysander was to have the actual power, but could not be named nauarch because Spartan law did not allow the same person to hold this office twice.[2][3][4][5]
In 398, Aracus was sent into Asia as one of the commissioners to inspect the state of things there, and to prolong the command of Dercyllidas;[6] and in 369, he was one of the ambassadors sent to Athens,[7] where Ἄρακος (Aracus) should be read instead of Ἄρατος (Aratus), though some sources confuse the names.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aracus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 254.