Ctesicles
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Ctesicles, the speech-writer
in the texts
Against Lacritus
Father of Philtiades son of Ctesicles.
and Philtiades, son of Ctesicles, of Xypetê.
Against Meidias
A prior festival offender punished with death for drunkenly striking a personal enemy in a procession.
Then another man, Ctesicles, was unanimously condemned by the Assembly for profaning the festival, and when he came before you, you sentenced him to death, because he carried a leathern lash in the procession and, being drunk, struck with it a personal enemy of his.
Against Theocrines
A resident-alien speech-writer who arranged a private settlement with Theocrines' father so that his fine for wrongly asserting a slave's freedom would not be recorded as a state debt.
he fixed things with Ctesicles, the speech-writer, who was acting in the matter for his opponents, in such a way that he should neither pay the damages nor be listed on the acropolis as a debtor to the state.
For if Ctesicles, the resident alien, did make an agreement with this fellow, as one scoundrel with another, that one sentenced to pay the fine in accordance with the law should not be handed over to the collectors, the state should not on that account be robbed of the penalties imposed by the laws.
Hellenica
An Athenian general dispatched with peltasts after the Corcyraean appeal.
When the Athenians heard these things they came to the conclusion that they must give serious care to the matter, and they sent out Ctesicles as general with about six hundred peltasts and requested Alcetas to help to convey them across.