Plutarchus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Euboean political figure whom Athens went to assist.
After receiving such benefits at your hands, the Chalcidians did not requite you with like treatment, but as soon as you had crossed over to Euboea to help Plutarchus, while at first they did pretend to be friends to you, yet as soon as we had come to Tamynae and had crossed the mountain called Cotylaeum, then Callias the Chalcidian, who had been the object of Demosthenes’ hired praises, seeing th …
Against Meidias
Associate of Meidias blamed for the troubles in Euboea.
-troubles for which his bosom-friend Plutarchus was responsible, he contrived to have the blame laid at my door, before it became plain to everyone that Plutarchus was at the bottom of the whole business.
On the Peace
A Euboean political figure whose proposed support is cited as a mistaken Athenian policy.
For in the first place, Athenians, when it was proposed to take advantage of the unrest in Euboea and side with Plutarchus in a war that would bring us more expense than glory, I was the first and indeed the only speaker to oppose it, and I narrowly escaped being torn to pieces by those who induced you for trifling gains to commit many serious errors.
Third Philippic
A political-military figure in Eretria removed by the democrats.
but at Eretria, when the democrats, ridding themselves of Plutarchus and his mercenaries, held the city together with Porthmus, some of them were for handing the government over to you, others to Philip.