Heracleides
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Heracleides of Aenos · Heracleides of Clazomenae · Heracleides, of Maroneia · his brother · the King · the banker
spoken of as
3 expressionsHeracleides of Aenos1 mention
Against Aristocrates (Greek)
Nevertheless, when he was a wicked, unprincipled man, and was doing you serious injury, you treated the men who put him to death, Pytho and Heracleides of Aenos, as benefactors, made them citizens, and decorated them with crowns of gold.
Heracleides of Clazomenae1 mention
Constitution of the Athenians (Greek)
but as people did not gather for the Assembly, and the prytanes devised many tricks to make the multitude attend for the ratification of the vote, first Agyrrhius provided an obol, and after him Heracleides of Clazomenae, the one called the King, two obols, and again Agyrrhius three obols.
in the texts
Anabasis
Agent of Seuthes who sells booty, withholds or mishandles pay, slanders Xenophon, and is accused by the Greeks of stealing their proceeds.
Heracleides, on the other hand, took the rest of the generals in to visit Seuthes and bade them say that they could lead the army just as well as Xenophon, while at the same time he promised them that within a few days they would have their pay in full for two months and urged them to continue the campaign with Seuthes.
There Heracleides presented himself, with the proceeds from the sale of the booty.
Then he dispatched Heracleides to Perinthus to sell the booty, so that he might get money to pay the soldiers with;
Constitution of the Athenians
Nicknamed 'the King', raised Assembly pay to two obols
but as people did not gather for the Assembly, and the prytanes devised many tricks to make the multitude attend for the ratification of the vote, first Agyrrhius provided an obol, and after him Heracleides of Clazomenae, the one called the King, two obols, and again Agyrrhius three obols.
Against Apaturius
A banker who lends thirty minae to help Apaturius, with the speaker standing as surety, and whose bank later fails.
I happened to have no ready money in hand, but being acquainted with Heracleides, the banker, I persuaded him to lend the money, and to take me as surety.
Not long after this, the bank having failed, and Heracleides for a time having gone into hiding, the plaintiff schemed to send the slaves from Athens, and to remove the ship from the harbor.
Against Aristocrates
Aenian associated with Pytho in the killing of Cotys and subsequent Athenian honors.
Nevertheless, when he was a wicked, unprincipled man, and was doing you serious injury, you treated the men who put him to death, Pytho and Heracleides of Aenos, as benefactors, made them citizens, and decorated them with crowns of gold.
Against Olympiodorus
A banker whose bank held some of Comon's ready money before funeral expenses consumed most of it.
Whatever ready money Comon left in the bank of Heracleides had been nearly all spent on his burial and the other funeral rites, and on the building of his tomb.