Callisthenes

Therefore, needing to prevail upon the most beloved son Callisthenes, I thought that, if I took you as a partner in the matter, I should more easily accomplish what I am eager for.

To Callisthenes.

I gave thanks to God on reading the letter of your nobility:

As proof of all my statements, I offered the letters of the persons in question, the decrees of the people, and Callisthenes’ treaty of truce.

for I told how, when you had conquered Perdiccas in the war, under the generalship of Callisthenes, you made a truce with him, ever expecting to receive some just return.

For he who grieves at another's adversities grieves also at another's prosperities, as Theophrastus, deploring the death of his companion Callisthenes, is vexed at the prosperous affairs of Alexander, and so says that Callisthenes fell in with a man of the highest power and the highest fortune, but ignorant of how it befitted him to use prosperity.

I omit much that might be said about the other benefits conferred upon you by this prince and also by his ancestors, but the year before last, when there was a universal shortage of grain, he not only sent enough for your needs, but such a quantity in addition that Callisthenes had a surplus of fifteen talents of silver to dispose of.

We, Callisthenes of Sphettus, Diognetus of Thoricus, Mnesitheus of Alopece, know that Demosthenes, for whom we appear, has brought an action for ejectment against Meidias, who is now also being publicly prosecuted by him, and that eight years have now passed since that action, and that Meidias has been the cause of all the delay by repeated excuses and procrastinations.

Proposed by Callisthenes of Phalerum.

To prove the truth of these statements, please read the decree of Callisthenes and Philip’s letter, which will make every point clear.

In the archonship of Mnesiphilus, at an extraordinary assembly convened by the Generals and the Presidents, with the approval of the Council, on the twenty-first day of Maemacterion, Callisthenes, son of Eteonicus of Phalerum, proposed that no Athenian be allowed upon any pretext whatsoever to pass the night in the country, but only in the City and Peiraeus, except those stationed in the garrison;

(The Decree of Callisthenes is read)

Now take and read the decrees of Diophantus and of Callisthenes.

and he killed Cleitus the wise, and Philotas the handsome, and the aged Parmenion, and his teacher Callisthenes, and he had a mind to kill Aristotle, and plotted against Antipater.

and that Baralis the Illyrian ruled from the Molossians as far as Macedonia, from a dream, I learn from Callisthenes.

But when the Athenians learned of this, they likewise sent ambassadors,—Conon at their head, and Hermogenes, Dion, Callisthenes, and Callimedon.