Philonicus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the False Embassy
Person prosecuted by Aristophon in a case used to question Eubulus' support for Aeschines.
So you do not mount the tribune for your own kinsmen and for men who have a claim on your services, and will you mount it for Aeschines, who, when Aristophon prosecuted Philonicus, and in denouncing him denounced your own policy, joined in the attack upon you, and so ranged himself with your enemies?
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
The buyer to whom Dicaeogenes (III.) sold, for 5000 drachmae, the town-house the plaintiffs had given him as a gift beyond his rightful share.
Now, gentlemen, we in court, when we obliged him to renounce this property, let him off the payment of the revenue he had received from it in consideration of the public services which he had performed and the expenses which he had incurred on the buildings, in accordance with the decision of the judges and subsequently, under no compulsion but of our own free will, in consideration of the repairs …