Callicles
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 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.
this, men of the jury, is the way in which I learned all the facts.
Callicles says that I am doing him an injury by having walled off the watercourse;
For Callicles, having set his heart on my land, has pestered me with malicious and baseless litigation:
Apollodorus Against Polycles
A sailor, son of Epitrephes of Thria, who warns Apollodorus about the Callistratus mission.
When I replied that I did not know, he said, Then I will tell you;
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.
Nemean
Uncle of Timasarchus, in whose honor a poetic 'monument' is requested.
But if in honor of your uncle Callicles you bid me to build a monument whiter than Parian stone, know that gold, when it is refined, shows all radiance, and a song in honor of noble deeds makes a man equal in fortune to kings.