Antiphanes
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Antiphanes of Lamptrae · Antiphanes the comic poet
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1 expressionAntiphanes of Lamptrae1 mention
Apollodorus Against Timotheus (Greek)
That I did not put the deposition in the box before the arbitrator was due to a trick of Antiphanes, who kept saying that he would give evidence for me on the day set for the decision;
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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.
That I did not put the deposition in the box before the arbitrator was due to a trick of Antiphanes, who kept saying that he would give evidence for me on the day set for the decision;
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.
Now, however, I have entered suit on my own account for damages against Antiphanes because he neither gave testimony for me, nor asked under oath for a postponement, as the law provides.
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;