Hegesandrus
historical figure · 1 work · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Hegesandrus, son of Diphilus
in the texts
Against Timarchus
An Athenian who enriched himself as treasurer to the general Timomachus in the Hellespont and who took Timarchus into his household after Pittalacus.
But about the same time, while, as I have said, he was staying with Pittalacus, here comes Hegesandrus, back again from the Hellespont.
Hegesandrus, being so well supplied with money, resorted to the house of Pittalacus, who gambled with him;
And when, as always happens, a crowd of people had come running up, Hegesandrus and Timarchus, afraid that their disgusting vices were going to be published to the whole town—a meeting of the assembly was about to be held—hurried up to the altar themselves, and some of their gaming-companions with them, and surrounding Pittalacus begged him to get up, saying that the whole thing was only a drunken frolic;