Eryximachus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Eryximachus, son of Acumenus · Son of Acumenus
in the texts
Symposium
A physician among the banquet guests who proposes the format of speeches praising Love and delivers the third speech, extending the theme of the double Love to medicine and the cosmos.
He is constantly complaining to me and saying,—Is it not a curious thing, Eryximachus, that while other gods have hymns and psalms indited in their honor by the poets, the god of Love, so ancient and so great, has had no song of praise composed for him by a single one of all the many poets that ever have been?
and he could only just say to Eryximachus the doctor, whose place was next below him, I look to you Eryximachus, either to stop my hiccough, or to speak in my stead until I can stop it.
Since it has been resolved, then, said Eryximachus, that we are to drink only so much as each desires, with no constraint on any, I next propose that the flute-girl who came in just now be dismissed:
On the Mysteries
A person denounced by Teucrus in the Hermae matter.
Euctemon, Glaucippus, Eurymachus, Polyeuctus, Plato, Antidorus, Charippus, Theodorus, Alcisthenes, Menestratus, Eryximachus, Euphiletus, Eurydamas, Pherecles, Meletus, Timanthes, Archidamus, Telenicus.
Against Boeotus II
Husband of the speaker's maternal aunt, used as evidence for comparable dowry size.
Secondly, it has been proved to you by witnesses that her sister brought a dowry of the like amount when she married Eryximachus, the brother-in-law of Chabrias.