Callias

In the ensuing year—the year in which there was an eclipse of the moon one evening, and the old temple of Athena at Athens was burned, Pityas being now ephor at Sparta and Callias archon at Athens—the Lacedaemonians sent Callicratidas to take command of the fleet, since Lysander’s term of office had ended (and with it the twenty-fourth year of the war).

Now it chanced also that there were ambassadors of the Lacedaemonians in Athens at the house of Callias, their diplomatic agent, — Etymocles, Aristolochus, and Ocyllus;

And Agesilaus, being now assured that Otys was eager, immediately manned a trireme and ordered Callias the Lacedaemonian to fetch the girl, while he set off himself for Dascyleium, the place where the palace of Pharnabazus was situated, and round about it were many large villages, stored with provisions in abundance, and splendid wild animals, some of them in enclosed parks, others in open spaces.

You are always quizzing us, replied Socrates;

Such was the demeanour of Callias at this time under the influence of Love;

Very well, then, said Callias, I will now tell you what I take greatest pride in.

Callias, son of Alcmaeon.

Kindly call Callias and Stephanus—yes, and call Philippus and Alexippus.

and we told him to meet us at Callias’ house, so that Callias, son of Telocles, might be present as well.

For this is Demosthenes’ personal and peculiar way of doing things:

—no longer to pay their contribution of five talents to you, but to Callias;

finally he called on Demosthenes by name and bade him confirm his statements.

Then this bird is Callias!

so the informers set upon him and the women too pluck out his feathers.

just as one might say, Hipponicus, the son of Callias, who is the son of Hipponicus.

" Again, when Callias the comic poet had written, "They say all must alike go mad among the mad," Menander in the Husbandmen runs even with him, saying, "Not everywhere does the presence of prudence fit;

Proposed by Callias of Phrearrii, and put to vote by the presidents, with sanction of Council:

Callias of Phrearrii proposed that the Council and People resolve to crown Nausicles, the commander of the infantry, because, when Philo, the official paymaster, was prevented by storms from sailing with pay for the two thousand Athenian infantry serving in Imbros to assist the Athenian residents in that island, he paid them from his private means, and did not send in a claim to the people;

Again, your general, Callias, captured the cities on the Pagasaean Gulf, every one of them, though they were protected by treaty with you and were in alliance with me all merchants sailing to Macedonia he regarded as enemies and sold them into slavery.

This report is obviously true, for the men who were unanimously expelled from Athens, as being of far looser morals than the average mountebank—I mean Callias the hangman and fellows of that stamp, low comedians, men who compose ribald songs to raise a laugh against their boon companions—these are the men he welcomes and loves to have about him.

But the son of Callias, if indeed he was really saved, having been taken captive then, coming from Thrace, after having been there many years and often scourged—no one would think fit to drive him from the citizenship;

so that later, having escaped and come home, he disputed the inheritance of Callias and caused his kinsmen much trouble—he, I think, lying (for he was not the son, but a groom of Callias, like in face to Callias' youth, who chanced to have died in the battle;

The Sybarites point to a precinct and a temple beside the dry bed of the Crathis, which, they say, Dorieus founded in honor of Athena of Crathis after he had helped to take their city.

The Crotoniats, on the other hand, show many plots of land which had been set apart for and given to Callias of Elis and on which Callias ' posterity dwelt even to my time but show no gift to Dorieus and his descendants.

This is the story which the Sybarites tell of Dorieus and his companions, but the Crotoniats say that they were aided by no stranger in their war with Sybaris with the exception of Callias, an Elean diviner of the Iamid clan.

For these men were made Athenian citizens on the motion of Demosthenes and they are his special agents.

In very holy Pytho the blood of this family was once victorious, his hands bound with leather straps—Callias, who had found favor with the children of Leto of the golden distaff, and beside Castalia at evening he was made radiant by the loud chorus of the Graces.

You are quite right, son of Callias;

he is staying, so I was told, with Callias, son of Hipponicus.

Then do you agree, said Callias, to our making a session of it, so that we may sit at ease for our conversation?

Meanwhile Callias and Alcibiades came, bringing with them Prodicus, whom they had induced to rise from his couch, and Prodicus’ circle also.

After the battle the Athenians erected a trophy, and gave back their dead to the Potidaeans under truce.

who, on arriving in Macedonia first, found that the former thousand had just taken Therme, and were besieging Pydna.

But on the other hand, Callias, the general of the Athenians and his fellow-commanders, despatch the cavalry of the Macedonians and a few of the allies towards Olynthus, to prevent the troops there from giving any assistance;