Leptines
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
he · Leptines of Coele · a certain Leptines · proposer of this law · the proposer · this fellow · you · your law, Leptines
spoken of as
1 expressionLeptines of Coele1 mention
Against Androtion (Greek)
He collected from Leptines of Coele thirty-four drachmas, from Theoxenus of Alopece seventy drachmas or a trifle more, and from Callicrates, the son of Eupherus, and from the young son of Telestes, whose name I cannot give you—but without going into details, of all those from whom he collected money, I doubt if anyone owed more than a mina.
in the texts
Against Leptines
The Athenian who proposed the contested law abolishing existing and future exemptions.
Which, then, ought you to have chosen to do, Leptines?
But as to the character of the proposer of this law, I have no further knowledge of him, nor do I say or know anything to his prejudice;
But I should like to ask Leptines on what grounds, even if not some, but all the recipients had been to the last degree undeserving, he has meted out the same treatment to you as to them;
Orations
Athenian politician who, in the time of Philip, proposed a law revoking tax immunities from citizens except descendants of Harmodius and Aristogeiton; the law was later indicted and overturned.
And besides, the one who then proposed the law accused some of those who had received the immunity and declared the most of them wicked, not merely unworthy of gratitude;
Among the Athenians, then, especially in the time of Philip, when they had yielded the leadership and clung only to freedom that remained, a certain Leptines introduced a law that it was necessary to take away the immunities from those who held them from the people, except those descended from Harmodius and Aristogeiton, and that henceforth it should no longer be allowed to give anyone this gift.
and, by Zeus, if a man should be entrusted by a king or a tyrant with gold or silver, or ships, or arms, or a citadel, or the whole empire—as Leptines often received Syracuse from his brother, and Philistus from the younger Dionysius, and the Magi the royal palace of the Persians from Cambyses, when he was on campaign in Egypt, and Mithranes the citadel of Sardis from Darius, and Persaeus the Acro …
Against Androtion
A named taxpayer from whom Androtion collected money.
He collected from Leptines of Coele thirty-four drachmas, from Theoxenus of Alopece seventy drachmas or a trifle more, and from Callicrates, the son of Eupherus, and from the young son of Telestes, whose name I cannot give you—but without going into details, of all those from whom he collected money, I doubt if anyone owed more than a mina.