Execestus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the physician
in the texts
Against Aristocrates
A Lampsacene who, with Thersagoras, killed Philiscus for the sake of civic freedom.
Now there were two men in Lampsacus, one named Thersagoras and the other Execestus, who had formed views about tyranny very much like those that prevail here.
Thersagoras and Execestus came to Lesbos and lived there.
On the False Embassy
Physician involved in the affidavit claiming Aeschines was too ill for the embassy.
and his brother, taking Execestus the physician with him, repaired to the council-house, made affidavit of the illness, and received the appointment himself.