Pollis
(
*Po/llis), is first mentioned in B. C. 390 as
ἀπιστολεύς, or second in command of the Lacedaemonian fleet (
Xen. Hell. 4.8.11). In B. C. 376 he was appointed
navarchus or commander-in-chief of a Lacedaemonian fleet of sixty ships in order to cut off from Athens her supplies of corn. His want of success and defeat by Chabrias are related in the life of the latter [Vol. I. p. 676a.] (
Xen. Hell. 5.4. §§ 60, 61;
Diod. 15.34;
Polyaen. 3.11.17.)
In several MSS. of the above-mentioned authors, his name is written
Πόλις, but
Πόλλις is the preferable form.