Hierocles
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the famous Hierocles · the uncle of the deceased and of me
in the texts
Letters
Referenced only as the famous relative of Alypius.
There were seated beside me not a few of those who have held office, and among them the wholly excellent Alypius, cousin of the famous Hierocles.
The Rights of War and Peace
Neoplatonist philosopher cited on the nature of justice and human sinfulness.
” Hierocles gives a fine character of justice, calling it the healing remedy of all mischief.
So that Sopater, Hierocles and Seneca among the Philosophers;
On the Estate of Astyphilus
Uncle of both Astyphilus and the speaker who claims custody of Astyphilus's alleged will and testifies in support of Cleon's claim.
[I, therefore, sought out Cleon, who informed me that] his son had been adopted by Astyphilus, and that the latter had left a will to this effect in the keeping of Hierocles of Iphistiadae.
Nay, before any formal claim was laid to the estate, Hierocles, well aware that the estate was coming by rights to me and to no one else, went round in turn to all the friends of the deceased, hawking his scheme and trying to persuade men who had no title to it to claim the estate, saying that he was Astyphilus's uncle and would show that he had left a will, if anyone would go shares with him;
And yet, Hierocles, though you received many kindnesses from my father Theophrastus, when you were less prosperous than you are now, and from Astyphilus, you are paying to neither of them the return which is their due;