Lampis
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the servant of Dio · the shipowner
in the texts
Stromata
Named as exemplary teacher of seamanship.
And just as, if a man attend to Ischomachus, he will make him a husbandman, and Lampis a shipmaster, and Charidemus a general, and Simon a horseman, and Perdix a huckster, and Crobylus a cook, and Archelaus a dancer, and Homer a poet, and Pyrrho a wrangler, and Demosthenes an orator, and Chrysippus a logician, and Aristotle a natural philosopher, and Plato a philosopher;
Against Aristocrates
A prominent ship-owner in Hellas used as a comparison for denied citizenship.
Is it not discreditable that, whereas the Aeginetans yonder, who inhabit that insignificant island, and have nothing whatever to be proud of, have never to this day given their citizenship to Lampis, the largest ship-owner in Hellas, who fitted out their city and their seaport, but have reluctantly rewarded him merely with exemption from the alien-tax;
Against Phormio
A shipowner and servant of Dio who sailed the ship that was wrecked near Bosporus, and whose shifting testimony about receiving repayment from Phormio is central to the case.
but they claim that they have paid the money to Lampis, the servant of Dio, in Bosporus.
Remember, men of Athens, that even Lampis himself never denied saying that he had not received the money;
I have paid the money to this man who is standing here —and at the same time to call upon Lampis to corroborate his words.