Nausicles
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Embassy
The Athenian who nominated Aeschines as one of the ten ambassadors to Philip.
At the election of the ten ambassadors I was nominated by Nausicles, but Philocrates himself nominated Demosthenes—Demosthenes, the man who now accuses Philocrates.
From among my friends and associates I call Nausicles, and all the others with whom I have associated and whose pursuits I have shared.
On the Crown
Athenian infantry commander crowned for private expenditure on troops.
Nausicles, for example, has been repeatedly decorated by you for the money he spent out of his own pocket when serving as military commander.
Callias of Phrearrii proposed that the Council and People resolve to crown Nausicles, the commander of the infantry, because, when Philo, the official paymaster, was prevented by storms from sailing with pay for the two thousand Athenian infantry serving in Imbros to assist the Athenian residents in that island, he paid them from his private means, and did not send in a claim to the people;
In the archonship of Nausicles, the tribe Aeantis then holding the presidency, on the sixteenth day of Scirophorion, Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania, proposed that, whereas Philip of Macedon is proved in the past to have violated the terms of peace agreed to between him and the People of Athens, disregarding his oaths and the principles of equity as recognized among all the Greeks:
Letters
An Athenian named among the deceased friends of the people listed together with Lycurgus as champions the city has lost.
So, when it is possible for all to behold object-lessons of such a kind and on such a scale, from which everyone would conclude that it does not pay to espouse the cause of the people, I begin to fear that some day you may become destitute of men who will speak on your behalf, especially when of the friends of the people some are being taken away by man’s natural destiny, by accident, and by the l …
In Defence of Euxenippus
An Athenian whose estate, jointly held with Philip, Tisis threatened to have inventoried on the allegation of profiting from unregistered mines.
When Tisis of Agryle brought in an inventory of the estate of Euthycrates, amounting to more than sixty talents, on the grounds of its being public property, and again later promised to bring in an inventory of the estate of Philip and Nausicles saying that they had made their money from unregistered mines, this jury were so far from approving such a suggestion or coveting the property of others t …