Menippus
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a fellow from Caria
in the texts
On His Return
The Athenian who proposed the decree granting Andocides immunity, which the speaker now asks the Assembly to restore.
You decreed on the motion of Menippus that I should be granted immunity;
Academica
Greek Cynic satirist whose style Varro imitated in his own satirical works.
And yet in those old writings of mine, which, imitating Menippus and not translating him, I sprinkled with a certain gaiety, much is mixed in from the inmost part of philosophy, much is said in the manner of logic, and so that the less learned might more easily grasp it, they were invited to read by a certain pleasantness;
Against Meidias
Caria-associated accuser in the Euandrus precedent.
He had won a commercial suit against Menippus, but being, as he alleged, unable to catch him sooner, he had arrested him while he was staying here for the Mysteries.
First of all then, to begin with the most recent condemnation, the Assembly gave its verdict against Euandrus of Thespiae for profanation of the Mysteries on the charge of Menippus, a fellow from Caria.
The Rights of War and Peace
General of Antiochus condemned by Livy for killing Romans before any declaration.
Upon the same ground Livy condemns the conduct of Menippus, a general belonging to Antiochus for having killed some Roman citizens before any declaration of war had been made, or even before a sword had been drawn, or a drop of blood spilt, to shew that hostilities were intended.
Meditations
Cynic satirist listed among those who mocked mortal life yet themselves died.
and besides these Eudoxus, Hipparchus, Archimedes, and other keen, high-minded, laborious, cunning, and self-willed natures, mockers of the very mortal and fleeting life of men, such as Menippus and the like.