Cleocritus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Birds
A contemporary Athenian mocked for a supposedly ostrich-like appearance in a joke Pisthetaerus makes during the priest's litany.
sovereign ostrich Cybele, mother of Cleocritus!
Hellenica
The herald of the initiated, described as having a very fine voice, who publicly appeals to the men of the city to cease fighting their fellow citizens.
And Cleocritus, the herald of the initiated, a man with a very fine voice, obtained silence and said:
In the name of the gods of our fathers and mothers, in the name of our ties of kinship and marriage and comradeship,—for all these many of us share with one another,—cease, out of shame before gods and men, to sin against your fatherland, and do not obey those most accursed Thirty, who for the sake of their private gain have killed in eight months more Athenians, almost, than all the Peloponnesian …
And when we might live in peace as fellow citizens, these men bring upon us war with one another, a war most utterly shameful and intolerable, utterly unholy and hated by both gods and men. Yet for all that, be well assured that for some of those now slain by our hands not only you, but we also, have wept bitterly.