Leosthenes
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the general · the leader of these men · their leader
in the texts
On the Embassy
An Athenian, apparently in exile or disfavor, whose return Demosthenes boasted he would secure through his oratory against Philip.
When we were discussing what should be said, and when Cimon remarked that he was afraid Philip would get the better of us in arguing his claims, Demosthenes promised fountains of oratory, and said that he was going to make such a speech about our claims to Amphipolis and the origin of the war that he would sew up Philip’s mouth with an unsoaked rush, and he would persuade the Athenians to permit L …
For Leosthenes, who had been exiled from Athens through the work of blackmailers, was not competent to write a clever letter—a man whom some do not hesitate to rank next to Callistratus of Aphidna as an able orator!
Funeral Oration
The Athenian general who led the allied Greek forces against Antipater and Macedon in the war being commemorated, credited with rousing Greece to resist Macedonian domination before dying in the campaign.
Such trials Leosthenes induced the citizens to brave undaunted, and they gave up their persons gladly to share the struggle with so great a leader.
and therefore, in the praise that I bestow upon the victory gained, I shall be commending not merely the leadership of Leosthenes but the courage of his comrades too.
After raising a mercenary force he took command of the citizen army and defeated the first opponents of Greek freedom, the Boeotians, Macedonians and Euboeans, together with their other allies, in battle in Boeotia.
In Defence of Euxenippus
An Athenian formerly subjected to impeachment, cited among examples of past serious impeachments.
At one time the men impeached before you were Timomachus, Leosthenes, Callistratus, Philon of Anaea, Theotimus who lost Sestos, and others of the same type.