Polycles
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the defendant
in the texts
Apollodorus Against Polycles
The defendant, appointed successor in the trierarchy, accused of failing to take over Apollodorus' ship and reimburse expenses.
So, said he, I will not take over the ship alone.
Accordingly I borrowed from Cleanax and Eperatus, friends of my father in Tenedos, and gave the sailors their provision-money;
For the suit is not a private one concerning Polycles and myself alone, but it touches also the interests of the state as well.
On the Crown
Archon named in the dating of Demosthenes' naval-law decree.
In the archonship of Polycles, on the sixteenth of the month Boëdromion, the tribe Hippothontis holding the presidency, Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania, introduced a bill to amend the former law constituting the syndicates for the equipment of triremes.
Orations
Sculptor credited with the statue later found mutilated and misattributed.
I beheld also the fair Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias — I know not where, except I beheld in a fine part of Greece — having the inscription of Chalcopogon, and another with his hands cut off, which was said to be of the art of Polycles;
Characters
The addressee of the treatise, to whom the author explains his purpose in cataloguing characters.
for I suppose, Polycles, that our sons will be the better for it, if such memoranda are left to them, by which, using them as examples, they will choose to keep company and associate with the most decent of men, that they may not fall short of them.
For I, Polycles, having studied human nature over a long stretch of time, having lived ninety-nine years, and having besides associated with many and various dispositions and observed with great care both the good and the worthless among men, judged that I ought to write down the things that each of the two sorts pursue in life.