Euthydicus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Euthydicis · Euthydicus the physician · the physician
in the texts
Against Timarchus
A physician in Peiraeus at whose establishment Timarchus lodged, ostensibly as a medical student.
Timarchus, who once used to stay at the house of Euthydicis the physician, became intimate with me, and I hold him today in the same esteem as in all my past acquaintance with him.
First of all, as soon as he was past boyhood he settled down in the Peiraeus at the establishment of Euthydicus the physician, pretending to be a student of medicine, but in fact deliberately offering himself for sale, as the event proved.
Against Boeotus II
Physician asked to cut Boeotus's head, who allegedly exposed the scheme before the Areopagus.
And if Euthydicus, the physician, to whom these men had gone in the first instance, asking him to make a cut on the head of Boeotus—had not told to the court of the Areopagus the whole truth, this man would have taken such vengeance upon me, who was guilty of no wrong toward him, as you would not try to inflict on those who were guilty of the greatest wrongs toward you.
Letters
An Athenian named among the deceased friends of the people listed together with Lycurgus as champions the city has lost.
So, when it is possible for all to behold object-lessons of such a kind and on such a scale, from which everyone would conclude that it does not pay to espouse the cause of the people, I begin to fear that some day you may become destitute of men who will speak on your behalf, especially when of the friends of the people some are being taken away by man’s natural destiny, by accident, and by the l …