Carion
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Embassy
Comic dramatic role named in Demosthenes' reported comparison.
How outrageous that when a man whose business it is to act the parts of a Carion or of a Xanthias showed himself so noble and generous, Aeschines, the counsellor of the greatest city, the adviser of the Ten Thousand of Arcadia, did not restrain his insolence, but in drunken heat, when Xenodocus, one of the picked corps of Philip, was entertaining us, seized a captive woman by the hair, and took a …
Orations
A stock comic slave character appearing drunk in comedies, cited for contrast.
As in the comedies and farces, bringing in Carion drunk and Daos does not greatly move laughter, but to see Heracles such seems ridiculous, carried away and, as they are wont, in a saffron robe;