Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Leon

    historical figure · 10 works · 15 mentions · 19 anchored passages

    Leon the Salaminian · Leon of Salamis · Leon of Thurii · chief of the Phliasians

    spoken of as

    3 expressions

    Leon of Salamis3 mentions

    Orations (Greek) · Apology (Greek) · Hellenica (Greek)

    since even that Socrates, of whom I often make mention, under the tyranny of the Thirty did everything on behalf of the people and took part in none of their crimes, but, even when sent by them after Leon of Salamis, did not obey, and reviled the tyrants outright, saying they were like wicked cowherds who, taking over cattle strong and many, make them few and feebler.
    oration 43

    Leon of Phlius1 mention

    Tusculan Disputations (Latin)

    Who, as Heraclides of Pontus, the hearer of Plato, a man learned among the first, writes, is said to have come to Phlius, and there to have discoursed learnedly and copiously on certain matters with Leon, chief of the Phliasians.
    book 5

    Leon of Thurii1 mention

    Anabasis (Greek)

    and the first man to get up was Leon of Thurii, who spoke as follows:
    chapter 5

    in the texts

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    One of the ten new Athenian generals chosen after the defeat at Notium.

    When the Athenians at home got the news of the battle at Notium, they were angry with Alcibiades, thinking that he had lost the ships through neglect of duty and dissolute conduct, and they chose ten new generals, Conon, Diomedon, Leon, Pericles, Erasinides, Aristocrates, Archestratus, Protomachus, Thrasyllus, and Aristogenes.
    sixth narrative 580 583
    in the end he sought refuge in the harbour of Mytilene, in Lesbos, and with him two more of the ten generals, Leon and Erasinides.
    chapter 1
    And the Athenians, upon hearing of this, sent up Timagoras and Leon.
    chapter 7

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Lacedaemonian ambassador sent to Athens alongside Philocharidas and Endius.

    There came likewise with all speed, as ambassadors from the Lacedaemonians, persons who were thought to be favourably inclined towards the Athenians, namely, Philocharidas, Leon, and Endius;
    chapter 5
    Now Astyochus, the Lacedaemonian admiral, set sail, as he had intended, with four ships from Cenchrea, and arrived at Chios On the third day after his coming there, the Athenian ships, five and twenty in number, sailed to Lesbos under the command of Leon and Diomedon;
    chapter 8
    And now Leon and Diomedon, with the Athenian ships from Lesbos, advancing from the Oenussae, the islands off Chios, and from Sidussa and Pteleum, fortresses which they held in the Erythraean country, as well as from Lesbos, carried on the war against the Chians from their ships, having as epibatae, some of the heavy-armed from the muster-roll, who had been pressed into the service.
    chapter 8

    On the MysteriesClassical · Greek

    A man arrested by Meletus under the Thirty and executed without trial.

    Meletus arrested Leon under the Thirty, as you all know;
    chapter 5

    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    Ruler/chief of Phlius who converses with Pythagoras, prompting the coinage of 'philosopher.'

    Who, as Heraclides of Pontus, the hearer of Plato, a man learned among the first, writes, is said to have come to Phlius, and there to have discoursed learnedly and copiously on certain matters with Leon, chief of the Phliasians.
    book 5

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Leon, author of a treatise on the gods of Egypt, cited for identifying Isis with the Greek goddess Demeter.

    And Leon, who treated of the gods of Egypt, says that Isis is called Demeter by the Greeks, who comes in the time of Lynceus, in the eleventh generation later than Moses.
    book 1

    On the False EmbassyClassical · Greek

    Historical precedent for denouncing a corrupt fellow ambassador.

    Leon denounced Timagoras, his fellow-ambassador for four years;
    on the false embassy

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Man whom the Thirty Tyrants ordered Socrates to arrest.

    since even that Socrates, of whom I often make mention, under the tyranny of the Thirty did everything on behalf of the people and took part in none of their crimes, but, even when sent by them after Leon of Salamis, did not obey, and reviled the tyrants outright, saying they were like wicked cowherds who, taking over cattle strong and many, make them few and feebler.
    oration 43

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Troezenian captive sacrificed by the Persians as an auspicious offering at Sciathus.

    The ship of Troezen, of which Prexinus was captain, was pursued and straightway captured by the foreigners, who brought the best of its fighting men and cut his throat on the ship's prow, thinking that the sacrifice of the foremost and fairest of their Greek captives would be auspicious.
    chapter 7

    ApologyClassical · Greek

    An Athenian from Salamis whom the Thirty Tyrants ordered Socrates to arrest and bring to be executed; Socrates refused.

    and after the oligarchy was established, the Thirty sent for me with four others to come to the rotunda and ordered us to bring Leon the Salaminian from Salamis to be put to death.
    apology

    AnabasisClassical · Greek

    Greek soldier from Thurii who proposes completing the journey by sea.

    and the first man to get up was Leon of Thurii, who spoke as follows:
    chapter 5