Cephisodorus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Cephisodorus, called Molon's son
in the texts
Against Timarchus
A man cited as a notorious example of a beautiful youth who ruined himself through a shameful life.
Or what Athenian was not indignant at Cephisodorus, called Molon’ s son, for having ruined his surpassing beauty by a most infamous life?
On the Mysteries
A person denounced by Teucrus in the Mysteries information.
Phaedrus, Gniphonides, Isonomus, Hephaestodorus, Cephisodorus, himself, Diognetus, Smindyrides, Philocrates, Antiphon, Teisarchus, Pantacles.
Against Onetor I
An Athenian archon named by Demosthenes as part of the sequence of years marking the progress of his citizenship and lawsuit.
After this archon came Cephisodorus and then Chion.
Against Theocrines
The Athenian whose maid-servant Theocrines' father wrongly claimed to be free, giving rise to the unpaid fine later cited against Theocrines.
) Read, please, the law which declares that anyone who is adjudged to have wrongfully asserted the freedom of a slave shall pay half the sum assessed into the public treasury, and then read also the deposition of Cephisodorus.
There is now a fourth law (for I admit that I have looked closely into most of the things which the defendant has done) according to which this Theocrines owes five hundred drachmae, since his father had not paid a fine of that amount to which he had been sentenced for having sought to maintain that the maid-servant of Cephisodorus was a free woman.