Leocrates
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 23 anchored passages
the defendant · the adopted Leocrates · the son so left · this man
in the texts
Against Leocrates
The defendant, an Athenian who left the city after the defeat at Chaeronea and is prosecuted by Lycurgus for treason.
Leocrates did nothing of the sort.
Leocrates ignored all these provisions.
an oath which Leocrates has broken in all that he has done.
Against Leochares
Adopted member of Archiades' house whose death without issue is said to return the estate to the nearest blood relatives.
Until Leocrates, who had been left by Leostratus in the house as a son, died without issue.
After this, Leostratus here himself returned to the house of his fathers, leaving a son in the adoptive house;
For we are nearest of kin to Archiades, to whom the property originally belonged, and also to the adopted Leocrates;
Against Spudias
The brother of Polyeuctus's wife, adopted by Polyeuctus, formerly married to the younger daughter, and later reconciled after settlement.
This Polyeuctus, since he had no male children, adopted Leocrates, the brother of his own wife;
and so long as Leocrates was the heir of Polyeuctus, it was he who was responsible to me for the debt;
and further that Polyeuctus always admitted that he was in my debt, and that he introduced to me Leocrates as guarantor;