Aristodemus

I denounced these men, and told the whole story, point by point, beginning with those earlier hopes created by the reports of Ctesiphon and Aristodemus, going on to the more recent orations of Aeschines at the approval of the peace, and showing to what straits they had reduced the city.

So on the strength of his policy at that time, and of the sample he had exhibited of his conduct, he was actually appointed as one of the ambassadors when you were induced by Aristodemus, Neoptolemus, Ctesiphon and others, who had brought entirely misleading reports from Macedonia, to send an embassy to negotiate peace with Philip.

At the outset, until Philip got a hearing on the question of peace, Ctesiphon and Aristodemus undertook the first initiation of the imposture, but, when the business was ripe for action, they passed it on to Philocrates and the defendant, who took it over, and completed the enterprise of destruction.

After no long time Aristodemus ' wife, whose name was Argeia, bore him offspring;

The Lacedaemonians say (but no poet agrees) that it was Aristodemus son of Aristomachus son of Cleodaeus son of Hyllus, and not his sons, who led them to that land which they now possess.

When Aristodemus returned to Lacedaemon, he was disgraced and without honor.

I have only to look around me, and there is a Phaedrus, an Agathon, an Eryximachus, a Pausanias, an Aristodemus, and an Aristophanes—I need not mention Socrates himself—and all the rest of them;

Then, as Aristodemus related, Eryximachus, Phaedrus, and some others took their leave and departed;

You, Aristodemus, take a place by Eryximachus.

I will first state what I once heard him say about the godhead in conversation with Aristodemus the dwarf, as he was called.

Which, think you, deserve the greater admiration, the creators of phantoms without sense and motion, or the creators of living, intelligent, and active beings?

I do, he answered.

So Aristodemus the actor is sent as envoy to Philip, as being an acquaintance of his, and of a profession that naturally wins friends.

Aristodemus appeared before them, reported Philip’s great friendliness toward the city, and added this besides, that Philip even wished to become an ally of our state.

But when Aristodemus returned from his mission, his report to the senate was delayed by certain business of his, and meanwhile Iatrocles came back from Macedonia, released by Philip without ransom.

and Aristodemus too, likewise a tragic actor, the Athenians often sent as ambassador to Philip on the greatest matters of peace and war.

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.

Of them were born three sons, Aristodemus here, my father, and Habronichus, my uncle, and Meidylides, who is now dead.

My father here (for the truth shall be told you) comes into court with manifest signs that he is, as you are all aware, a poor man, and that he knows nothing of pleading in court;

for his father, seeing that he has returned to the Eleusinians, no longer retained his legal relationship, whereas we, to whose family he had come to belong, had the closest relationship, being children of that father’s first cousin.

The first man to raise the question of peace in a speech was Aristodemus, the actor, and the man who took up the cue, moved the resolution, and, with Aeschines, became Philip’s hired agent, was Philocrates of Hagnus—your confederate, Aeschines, not mine, though you lie till you are black in the face.

and since Agesipolis was still a boy, the state commanded Aristodemus, who was of the royal family and the boy’s guardian, to lead the army.