Hyperides
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages · author page · cited 1 time in 1 work
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Academica
Greek orator cited as a model imitated by Roman orators.
As for orators, I see they are praised, any of our men who have imitated Hyperides or Demosthenes.
Orations
Orator recommended as easier and simpler reading for the statesman.
For the powers of these are simpler and their structures easier to grasp, and the beauty of their words in no way falls short of those others.
Against Demosthenes
The unnamed first-person prosecutor of the speech, identified by attribution as Hyperides, a former political associate of Demosthenes who now leads the case against him as one of the appointed accusers in the Harpalus affair.
Is it really true that Demosthenes, unlike any other man in Athens, is exempt from the laws which enforce an agreement made by a person against his own interests?
In my opinion the fact that you took the gold is proved to the jury well enough by your being condemned by the council to which you entrusted yourself When Harpalus arrived in Attica, gentlemen of the jury, and the envoys from Philoxenus demanding him were, at the same time, brought into the Assembly, Demosthenes came forward and made a long speech in which he argued that it was not right for Athe …
However during the period which followed the people did not forbid us to approach them or to discuss with them;