Polemarchus
historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the son of Cephalus
in the texts
Republic
Son of Cephalus, brother of Lysias and Euthydemus, heir of his father's household and argument.
There is a use then even in peace for justice?
And is not justice the specific virtue of man?
It was a riddling definition of justice, then, that Simonides gave after the manner of poets;
On the Mysteries
Father of Archebiades.
They went off, and returned with a slave belonging to Archebiades, son of Polemarchus.
Phaedrus
Brother of Lysias, mentioned as having turned toward philosophy.
And if in our former discourse Phaedrus and I said anything harsh against thee, blame Lysias, the father of that discourse, make him to cease from such speeches, and turn him, as his brother Polemarchus is turned, toward philosophy, that his lover Phaedrus may no longer hesitate, as he does now, between two ways, but may direct his life with all singleness of purpose toward love and philosophical discourses.