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.
Then what relief does your law, Leptines, afford to the main body of citizens, if from one or two tribes it provides a single contributor, who, having relieved one other citizen on one occasion, will thereafter be exempt?
It is clear, men of Athens, that Leptines and anyone else who defends the law will have nothing fair to say in its favor, but will urge the unworthiness of certain persons who have used their exemption as a means of shirking the public services, and he will take his stand chiefly on that ground.
I say, then, that it would be more honorable for Leptines to be guided by you in repealing the law than for you to be guided by him in ratifying it, and it would be more profitable for you, as well as for him, that Athens should persuade Leptines to assume a likeness to herself than that she should be persuaded by Leptines to be like him;
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.
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 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;
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.