Lasthenes
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Chersonese
An Olynthian whose fate after betraying his city illustrates Philip's unreliability.
If they doubt it, let them look at Euthycrates and Lasthenes, the Olynthians, who thought they were such bosom-friends of his, and then, when they had betrayed their city, met the most ignominious fate of all.
On the False Embassy
Olynthian associated with Macedonian gifts in the account of corruption.
But when some of them began to accept bribes, when the populace was so stupid, or, let us say, so unlucky, as to give more credence to those persons than to patriotic speakers, when Lasthenes had roofed his house with timber sent as a present from Macedonia, and Euthycrates was keeping a large herd of cattle for which he had paid nothing to anybody, when one man returned home with a flock of sheep …
Third Philippic
An Olynthian figure associated with the city's pro-Philip decisions.
A fine clemency he showed to the Olynthians, who voted Lasthenes their master of the horse and banished Apollonides!