Diopeithes
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Diopeithes of Melitê · Diopeithes of Sunium
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2 expressionsDiopeithes of Melitê1 mention
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek)
To prove that these statements of mine are true, (oo the clerk) call, please as witnesses those who were present with them, Eubulus of Probalinthus, Diopeithes of Melitê, and Cteson of Cerameis.
Diopeithes of Sunium1 mention
Against Timarchus (Greek)
As time went on they submitted the matter to the arbitration of Diopeithes of Sunium, a man of Hegesandrus’ own deme and one with whom he had had dealings in his younger years.
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Against Timarchus
An Athenian arbitrator of Hegesandrus' own deme who took on the dispute between Hegesandrus and Pittalacus and delayed it to favor Hegesandrus.
As time went on they submitted the matter to the arbitration of Diopeithes of Sunium, a man of Hegesandrus’ own deme and one with whom he had had dealings in his younger years.
On the Crown
Athenian associated with resolutions on contested places and injuries.
Yet you told us that I entangled the citizens in a quarrel by my talk about those places, though every resolution that concerned them was moved by Eubulus, or Aristophon, or Diopeithes, not by me;
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Man called as a witness to confirm that friends of Phrynion and Stephanus dined and drank with Neaera after the reconciliation.
To prove that these statements of mine are true, (oo the clerk) call, please as witnesses those who were present with them, Eubulus of Probalinthus, Diopeithes of Melitê, and Cteson of Cerameis.
Eubulus of Probalinthus, Diopeithes of Melitê, and Cteson of Cerameis, depose that after the reconciliation in the matter of Neaera was brought about between Phrynion and Stephanus they frequently dined with them and drank in the company of Neaera, the present defendant, both when Neaera was at the house of Stephanus and when she was at the house of Phrynion.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
Arbitrator nominated by Leochares and in fact his brother-in-law and a personal enemy of the speaker, who privately judged against Leochares yet refused to pronounce a sworn verdict.
Is it not extraordinary, gentlemen, that Leochares should ask you to absolve him where Diopeithes his brother-in-law condemned him?
Yet Diopeithes, one of the two arbitrators, was brother-in-law of Leochares here and a personal enemy of mine, and had been my opponent in other actions regarding contracts, while Demaratus, his colleague, was a brother of Mnesiptolemus, who acted with Leochares as surety for Dicaeogenes (III.
Hellenica
Lacedaemonian expert in oracles who argued for Leotychides's claim by citing a Delphic oracle against a 'lame kingship.'
But Diopeithes, a man very well versed in oracles, said in support of Leotychides that there was also an oracle of Apollo which bade the Lacedaemonians beware of the lame kingship.