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    Ctesias

    historical figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    Ctesias of Besa · Ctesias the physician · his own son · the son of Conon · the son of the defendant

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    Ctesias of Besa1 mention

    On the Estate of Nicostratus (Greek)

    Ctesias of Besa and Cranaus at first asserted that Nicostratus had been condemned to pay them a talent;
    on the estate of nicostratus

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Ctesias, historian of Assyria and Persia, cited for chronological data placing Moses' Exodus within the Assyrian imperial dating.

    And if the Assyrian matters are, by many years, older than the Greek, from what Ctesias says, the departure of Moses from Egypt, under Amosis the Egyptian and under Inachus the Argive, will appear to fall in the four hundred and second year of the Assyrian empire, and in the thirty-second year of the dynasty of Belochus the eighth.
    book 1

    Against CononClassical · Greek

    Conon's son, accused of drunken aggression and involvement in the assault.

    When we got close to them one of them, I don’t know which, fell upon Phanostratus and pinned him, while the defendant Conon together with his son and the son of Andromenes threw themselves upon me.
    against conon
    Not long after this, however, one evening, when I was taking a walk, as my custom was, in the agora with Phanostratus of Cephisia, a man of my own age, Ctesias, the son of the defendant, passed by me in a drunken state opposite the Leocorion, near the house of Pythodorus.
    against conon
    Since, however, he was convicted on all these points before the arbitrator, just as he is now, and proved manifestly guilty of all the charges against him, he puts into the box a false deposition, and writes at the head of it as witnesses the names of people whom I think you will know well when you hear them— Diotimus, son of Diotimus, of Icaria, Archebiades, son of Demoteles, of Halae, Chaeretimu …
    against conon

    Against LacritusClassical · Greek

    Father of Philtiades son of Ctesias.

    In addition to these, written affidavits were submitted by Archiades, son of Mnesonidas,of Acharnae, Sostratus, son of Philip, of Histiaea, Eumarichus, son of Euboeus, of Histiaea, Philtiades, son of Ctesias, of Xypetê, and Dionysius, son of Democratides, of Cholleidae.
    against lacritus

    On the Estate of NicostratusClassical · Greek

    A man who, together with Cranaus, first claimed Nicostratus had been condemned to pay them a talent and then claimed to be his freedman, unable to prove either claim.

    Ctesias of Besa and Cranaus at first asserted that Nicostratus had been condemned to pay them a talent;
    on the estate of nicostratus

    Ad NationesLate Antiquity · Latin

    Greek historian cited as a source on Persian customs of maternal incest.

    Plainly the Persians, as Ctesias relates, live freely with their mothers, as knowing as they are unshuddering.
    book 1

    ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

    Historical author cited as reporting incestuous practice among the Persians.

    Ctesias relates that the Persians have intercourse with their own mothers.
    apologeticum

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    Physician cited as a source for the King's wound and for casualties in the struggle around Cyrus.

    The number that fell on the King’s side is stated by Ctesias, who was with him;
    chapter 1
    and on the instant he lost control of himself and, with the cry I see the man, rushed upon him and struck him in the breast and wounded him through his breastplate—as Ctesias the physician says, adding also that he himself healed the wound.
    chapter 1