Callippus
historical figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Callippus of the Paeanian deme · Callippus, the son of Philon, of Aexonê · he · my brother on my father’s side · the plaintiff · this man · your countryman
spoken of as
1 expressionCallippus of the Paeanian deme1 mention
On Halonnesus (Greek)
And there they speak truth, for he did propose such a decree, and when I indicted him for a breach of the constitution, you acquitted him;
in the texts
Against Olympiodorus
The speaker's paternal half-brother, absent abroad at first, who returned and claimed half of Comon's estate.
Moreover, at this very time some other people filed claims to the estate of Comon, and Callippus, my brother on my father’s side, returned from abroad;
And we decided, men of the jury, that the defendant Olympiodorus should lay claim to the whole estate, and that,I should claim a half, seeing that my brother Callippus claimed a half only.
and for the defendant Olympiodorus to enter suit for the whole estate as he had done before, and conduct his case by himself, and for me to enter suit for a half, since my brother Callippus claimed the half only;
Against Phaenippus
Phaenippus' natural father.
For a considerable time you have enjoyed the income of two estates, that of your natural father, Callippus, and that of him who adopted you, Philostratus, the orator, and you have never done anything for your fellow-citizens here.
Apollodorus Against Callippus
The plaintiff, an Athenian citizen and proxenos of the Heracleotes, who claims Lycon's money and is accused of falsehood and procedural manipulation.
Matters have turned out like this.
This is why he made the award without taking an oath.
Immediately after this mischance this man Callippus came to the bank, and asked whether they knew Lycon, the Heracleote.
Apollodorus Against Polycles
Son of Philon of Aexonê, associated with the attempt to fetch Callistratus.
I have found this out, he said, from the servants of Callippus.
Callippus protested, and bade him sail for Macedonia in accordance with the general’s commands;
When it was manned, Callippus, the son of Philon, of Aexonê, came on board, and ordered the pilot to steer the course for Macedonia.
For Phormio
Prior target of Apollodorus’s accusations.
Did you not accuse Callippus, who is now in Sicily?
On Halonnesus
An Athenian from the Paeanian deme whose decree is said to have brought Athens' Chersonese claim into dispute.
And there they speak truth, for he did propose such a decree, and when I indicted him for a breach of the constitution, you acquitted him;
They say that the land they live in is not yours, but their own, and that while your possessions there are held by grace in a foreign country, theirs are their own property on their own soil, and that this is admitted in a decree of your countryman, Callippus of the Paeanian deme.
Antidosis
One of the early men said to have studied with Isocrates.
Among the first to begin studying with me were Eunomus, Lysitheides, and Callippus;