Euthycrates
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the father of Astyphilus
in the texts
On the Chersonese
An Olynthian associated with betrayal of his city and subsequent disgrace.
If they doubt it, let them look at Euthycrates and Lasthenes, the Olynthians, who thought they were such bosom-friends of his, and then, when they had betrayed their city, met the most ignominious fate of all.
On the False Embassy
Olynthian associated with gifts in the bribery narrative.
But when some of them began to accept bribes, when the populace was so stupid, or, let us say, so unlucky, as to give more credence to those persons than to patriotic speakers, when Lasthenes had roofed his house with timber sent as a present from Macedonia, and Euthycrates was keeping a large herd of cattle for which he had paid nothing to anybody, when one man returned home with a flock of sheep …
In Defence of Euxenippus
A wealthy Athenian whose estate, worth more than sixty talents, Tisis falsely claimed as public property.
When Tisis of Agryle brought in an inventory of the estate of Euthycrates, amounting to more than sixty talents, on the grounds of its being public property, and again later promised to bring in an inventory of the estate of Philip and Nausicles saying that they had made their money from unregistered mines, this jury were so far from approving such a suggestion or coveting the property of others t …
On the Estate of Astyphilus
Astyphilus's father, said to have died from injuries inflicted by Thudippus, Cleon's father, during a land dispute; on his deathbed he charged his friends to bar Thudippus's family from his tomb.
Evidence
secondly, you will make of none effect the injunctions of Euthycrates, the father of Astyphilus, which he himself never transgressed up to the end of his life;
However, to prove that Euthycrates, the father of Astyphilus, on his death-bed charged his friends never to allow any of Thudippus's family to come near his tomb, I will produce as witness before you the husband of Astyphilus's aunt.