Hypereides
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Hypereides, son of Callaeschrus
in the texts
On the Crown
Athenian orator chosen to speak for the state and witness for Demosthenes.
Teledemus, son of Cleon, Hypereides, son of Callaeschrus, Nicomachus, son of Diophantus, bear witness for Demosthenes, and have taken oath before the Generals that to their knowledge Aeschines, son of Atrometus, of Cothocidae, comes by night to the house of Thraso and holds communication with Anaxinus, who has been proved to be a spy from Philip.
We, Callias of Sunium, Zeno of Phlya, Cleon of Phalerum, Demonicus of Marathon, on behalf of all the councillors, bear witness for Demosthenes that, when the people elected Aeschines state-advocate before the Amphictyons in the matter of the temple at Delos, we in Council judged Hypereides more worthy to speak on behalf of the state, and Hypereides was accordingly commissioned.
In fact, the Council of the Areopagus knew well that Aeschines had been to blame throughout this affair, and therefore when, after choosing him by vote to speak in support of your claims to the Temple at Delos, by a misapprehension such as has often been fatal to your public interests, you invited the cooperation of that Council and gave them full authority, they promptly rejected him as a traitor …
Stromata
Athenian orator cited as borrower from Euripides and Theognis.
And when Euripides in the Oenomaus writes, "We conjecture the unseen from things present," and in the Phoenix, "The unseen is fairly caught by tokens," Hypereides says, "But the things that are unseen, those who teach them must of necessity inquire into by tokens and probabilities.
Against Aristogeiton II
Athenian speaker whose emergency enfranchisement decree Aristogeiton indicted as unconstitutional.
For after the disasters to the Greek forces at Chaeroneia, when the very foundations of our State were threatened with the utmost danger, when Hypereides proposed that the disfranchised citizens should be reinstated in order that, if any such danger should menace our State, all classes might unite wholeheartedly in the struggle for liberty, the defendant indicted this decree as unconstitutional an …
Against Theocrines
A prominent Athenian named as one of the men from whom Theocrines extorted money by selling indictments.
Read also in sequence the other depositions of the same sort, and that of Hypereides and Demosthenes.
On the False Embassy
Athenian who impeached Philocrates.
You know, I am sure, that, not long ago, when Hypereides impeached Philocrates, I rose and said that I was dissatisfied with the impeachment in one respect: