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.
For Euctemon, the pentecontarch, after he was sent home from the Hellespont on account of his sickness, when he reached port and heard that Polycles had been appointed to relieve me, knowing that the term of my trierarchy had expired and that I was now serving over time, took with him my father-in-law, Deinias, and coming up to Polycles in the sample market, bade him set sail and take over the shi …
There are many proofs from which I think I can show you that Polycles neither at the first intended to take over the ship from me, nor, after he was forced by you and your decree to go and join the ship, was he willing to take it over as my successor.
and on coming in I spoke at once to Polycles in the presence of the general, and called upon him to take over the ship from me, and to pay me for the disbursements made during the period since my term of service had expired;
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, 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.
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.