Philochares
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
his brother Philochares · our eldest brother
in the texts
On the Embassy
Aeschines' elder brother, portrayed as athletic, militarily experienced, and a general.
Philochares yonder, our eldest brother, a man not of ignoble pursuits, as you slanderously assert, but a frequenter of the gymnasia, a one-time comrade of Iphicrates in the field, and a general now for the past three years, has come to beg you to save me.
Letters
Figure whose accusations moved the governor's court to act against Gregory.
But since the court overlooked us, while your authority, moved by the revilings of Philochares, ordered that our brother and fellow minister Gregory be carried off — and he obeyed the order (for how should he not?
On the False Embassy
Brother of Aeschines expected as a possible defence speaker.
Perhaps he will find a brother to speak for him, Philochares or Aphobetus;
Even if none of the family had committed any crime, you would have no claim on our gratitude, but we should have a large claim on yours;
On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
Witness, described as a brother of one of the other witnesses, taken by Xenocles to the mines at Besa.
Thus, when Xenocles went to our factory at the mines at Besa, he did not think it sufficient to rely on any chance person who happened to be there as witness regarding the eviction, but took with him from Athens Diophantus of Sphettus, who defended him in the former case, and Dorotheus of Eleusis, and his brother Philochares, and many other witnesses, having invited them to make a journey of nearl …