Menexenus
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 12 anchored passages
son of Demophon
in the texts
Lysis
A young Athenian boy, close friend of Lysis and cousin of Ctesippus, who serves as Socrates' chief interlocutor in the philosophical argument about friendship.
Neither, he replied.
Then I, looking at Menexenus, asked him:
For I declare that the good is beautiful:
Against Boeotus II
Brother of the speaker's mother who helped give her in marriage with a talent dowry.
Her brothers, Menexenus and.
My mother, men of the jury, was the daughter of Polyaratus, of Cholargus, and sister of Menexenus, and Bathyllus and Periander.
so it was not fitting that the son of that famous man should wed my mother without a dowry, nor is it likely that Menexenus and Bathyllus, who had large fortunes themselves, and who, after Cleomedon’s death, received back the dowry, defrauded their own sister;
Trapeziticus
A companion of the plaintiff who helps seek the deposit, is falsely accused by Pasion of bribing Cittus, and independently sues Pasion for libel.
I for my part, however, asked him to take any action he pleased as to Menexenus, but to carry out his agreements with me.
But Menexenus found the slave here in the city, and having seized him demanded that he give testimony under torture about both the deposit and the charge brought by his master.
But the crowning impudence of all was this—that when Menexenus compelled Pasion to give security for the slave before the Polemarch, he gave bond for him in the sum of seven talents.