Mnesicles
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Mnesicles of Collytus · the torturer
in the texts
Against Boeotus I
A named associate characterized by the speaker as part of Boeotus's group of blackmailers.
but, as it is, he brought suit against my father, and having got up a gang of blackmailers to support him—Mnesicles, whom you all probably know, and that Menecles who secured the conviction of Ninus, and others of the same sort—he went into court, alleging that he was my father’s son by the daughter of Pamphilus, and that he was being outrageously treated, and robbed of his civic rights.
Against Boeotus II
Leader of the group of blackmailers said to support Boeotus.
but after Boeotus had grown up and had associated with himself a gang of blackmailers, whose leaders were Mnesicles and that Menecles who secured the conviction of Ninus, in connection with these men he brought suit against my father, claiming that he was his son.
Against Pantaenetus
A creditor and vendor connected with the mining property, later named in the torture challenge procedure.
but if they were false, Mnesicles, the torturer, should determine the value of the slave.
It happened that the plaintiff also owed a talent to Mnesicles of Collytus and forty-five minae to Phileas of Eleusis and Pleistor.
The vendor to us of the mining property and the slaves was Mnesicles, for he had purchased them for the plaintiff from Telemachus, the former owner;