Antimachus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Antimachus of Teos · his treasurer
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Clouds
A figure named by Just Cause as emblematic of lewdness that will corrupt the youth who follows Unjust Cause.
and in addition to this, he will fill you with the lewdness of Antimachus.
Stromata
Poet cited as source for a line on the dangers of gifts, reused by Agias.
" And when Antimachus of Teos had said, "For out of gifts come many ills to men," Agias made, "Gifts beguile the mind of men, and their deeds too.
Apollodorus Against Timotheus
Timotheus's treasurer, executed after the political prosecution and invoked in the dispute over the first loan.
When, therefore, the money was paid out, the bank recorded as debtor Timotheus, who had requested the loan, but made a memorandum in the name of Antimachus, to whom Timotheus had ordered the money to be paid, and also named Autonomus, whom Antimachus had sent to the bank to receive the money, the amount being one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols.
It was Timotheus who borrowed the money from my father, and who bade him give it to his treasurer Antimachus, but the one who received the money from Phormio at the bank was Autonomus, who throughout all that time served as secretary to Antimachus.
Regarding the one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols, which he borrowed as the first loan in the month Munichion in the archonship of Socratidas, when he was about to set out on his voyage, and which the defendant ordered to be paid to Antimachus, his treasurer, he declared that my father lent the money to Antimachus on his own private account, and that he (the defendant) did …
For Phormio
Son of Archestratus, invoked as someone with a stronger status-based claim than Apollodorus.
I am surprised that you do not of yourself make this reflection, that Archestratus, to whom your father formerly belonged, has a son here, Antimachus, who fares not at all as he deserves, and who does not go to law with you and say that he is outrageously treated, because you wear a soft mantle, and have redeemed one mistress, and have given another in marriage (all this, while you have a wife of …
And yet if on this ground you think you have a claim on Phormio’s property, because he once belonged to your father, Antimachus has a stronger claim than you have.