Antiphanes
historical figure · 6 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Antiphanes of Lamptrae · Antiphanes the comic poet
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Apollodorus Against Timotheus (Greek)
Well, then, when he was on the point of sailing home for his trial, the defendant, while still in Calaureia, borrowed from Antiphanes of Lamptrae, who sailed with Philip the shipowner as his treasurer, the sum of one thousand drachmae to distribute among the Boeotian trierarchs, that they might remain with the fleet until his trial should come off, for fear lest, if the Boeotian fleet should first …
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Stromata
Author listed among the sources of the catalogue of inventions.
Scamon of Mitylene, then, and Theophrastus of Eresus, and Cydippus of Mantinea, and besides Antiphanes and Aristodemus and Aristotle, and besides these Philostephanus, and Strato the Peripatetic too, in his works On Discoveries, related these things.
But on the contrary Antiphanes the comic poet says:
Apollodorus Against Timotheus
A man from Lamptrae who lent Timotheus a thousand drachmae in Calaureia and later failed to testify for Apollodorus.
Well, then, when he was on the point of sailing home for his trial, the defendant, while still in Calaureia, borrowed from Antiphanes of Lamptrae, who sailed with Philip the shipowner as his treasurer, the sum of one thousand drachmae to distribute among the Boeotian trierarchs, that they might remain with the fleet until his trial should come off, for fear lest, if the Boeotian fleet should first …
But when he got back to Athens, both Philip and Antiphanes demanded of him the thousand drachmae which he had borrowed in Calaureia, and were angry at not receiving their money at once.
Under stress of necessity, then, at that time he borrowed the thousand drachmae from Antiphanes, who sailed with Philip, the shipowner, as his treasurer, and gave them to the admiral of the Boeotian fleet.
On the Estate of Philoctemon
Purchaser of a farm at Athmonon sold by Euctemon shortly after Philoctemon's death.
In a very short time—and this was the object of their advice to Euctemon to annul the will—he sold a farm at Athmonon to Antiphanes for seventy-five minas and the bath-house at Serangion to Aristolochus for 3000 drachmas;
Against Philon
A man unrelated to Philon's mother whom she trusted with money for her burial instead of her own son.
She demurred to committing herself to his care after her death, but as she had confidence in Antiphanes, who was no connection of hers, she gave him three minae of silver for her burial, ignoring this man, who was her own son.
Now I ask you, if a mother,—who is naturally most willing to tolerate even an injury at the hands of her own children, and who counts little benefits as great gains because she assesses their behavior by affection rather than logic,—believed that this man would seek his profit from her even in death, what should be your feeling about him?
To prove that these also are true facts, hear the statement of the actual person who received the money and buried her.
Demosthenes
Comic poet who wrote a farce mocking the nickname 'Batalus' and, according to a conjecture, jested about Demosthenes' speech on Halonnesus.
Unless, indeed, this, too, was a jest of Antiphanes upon the speech of Demosthenes concerning Halonnesus, in which the orator counselled the Athenians not to take the island from Philip, but to retake it.
Now Batalus, as some say, was an effeminate flute-player, and Antiphanes wrote a farce in which he held him up to ridicule for this.
Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus
Comic poet whose jest about frozen and later-thawed words is applied to describe how Plato's precepts are only fully understood by his students once they reach maturity.
To these you may apply that of Antiphanes, which one ingeniously turned to Plato’s scholars.