Aristion
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
A Plataean-status youth said to have gained access to Alexander and carried Demosthenes' interests.
For, as the people of the Paralus say, and those who have been ambassadors to Alexander—and the story is sufficiently credible—there is one Aristion, a man of Plataean status, son of Aristobulus the apothecary, known perhaps to some of you.
On the Choreutes
A man against whom the defendant was pursuing legal suits and an impeachment for embezzlement at the time the chorus was being prepared and the boy died.
I was about to prosecute Aristion, Philinus, Ampelinus, and the secretary to the Thesmothetae, with whose embezzlements they had been associated, on charges which I had presented to the Council in the form of an impeachment.
I told the same jury that Philocrates had no right to place legal impediments in my way by coming to court with his outrageous charge, when I was bringing suits against Aristion and Philinus on the following day and the day after:
For a while after the arrival of the boys I had no time to look after them in person, as I happened to be engaged in suits against Aristion and Philinus, and was anxious to lose no time after the impeachment in sustaining my charges in a just and proper manner before the Council and the general public.