Callicles
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Callicles, the son of Epitrephes, of Thria · the plaintiff · this man
in the texts
Against Callicles
The plaintiff and neighbor who sues the speaker over alleged damage caused by the speaker's father's wall.
but if you abominate people of that sort, and vote as justice demands, then, as Callicles has suffered no loss and has in no way been wronged either by Callarus or by my father, I do not see what need there is of my saying more.
But this is the thing that is most outrageous of all, that Callicles, when the water overflows on his land, brings up huge stones and walls it off, but has brought suit for damages against me on the ground that my father was guilty of wrongdoing, because when the same thing happened to his land, he built an enclosing wall.
Callicles says that I am doing him an injury by having walled off the watercourse;
Apollodorus Against Polycles
A sailor, son of Epitrephes of Thria, who warns Apollodorus about the Callistratus mission.
When we had reached a place on the opposite mainland, a trading post of the Thasians, and had gone ashore and were getting our dinner, one of the sailors, Callicles, the son of Epitrephes, of Thria, came up to me, and said that he wished to speak to me about a matter which concerned myself.
When I replied that I did not know, he said, Then I will tell you;