Autolycus

Autolycus took a seat by his father’s side;

and so, if he desires to learn the ways of virtue,];

At this Autolycus blushed and said, No, indeed, not that.

Autolycus, however, did not catch the point of your uproar;

The Senate of the Areopagus appeared before the people in accordance with the resolution that Timarchus had introduced in the matter of the dwelling-houses on the Pnyx.

But you drove him off the platform, replying, We know, Pyrrandrus, that we ought not to laugh in their presence, but so strong is the truth that it prevails—over all the calculations of men.

The case must be classified as an instance of contradictory definition, since Leocrates admits that he left the city but denies that he betrayed it.

Moreover you condemned Autolycus and punished him because, though he himself had faced the dangers, he was charged with secretly sending his wife and sons away.

For he regards with complacency Autolycus, the maternal uncle of Odysseus, and says he was gifted beyond all men in thievery and perjury.