Procles
historical figure · 5 works · 9 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Polycles · Procles the Phliasian · sovereign of Epidaurus
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Hellenica
Son of Hipponicus and leader associated with a faction friendly to Agesilaus.
while the partisans of Procles, the son of Hipponicus, were friends of his own.
now I no longer hear, but with my own eyes at this moment see the Lacedaemonians, those most famous men, and their most loyal friends appearing in your state and in their turn requesting you to assist them.
If ever again danger should come to Greece from barbarians, whom would you trust more than the Lacedaemonians?
The Histories
Sovereign of Epidaurus and maternal grandfather of Periander's sons, whose parting remark to the boys exposes Periander's murder of Melissa.
but the younger, whose name was Lycophron, was struck with such horror when he heard them that when he came to Corinth he would not speak to his father, his mother's murderer, nor would he answer him when addressed nor reply to his questions.
Epidaurus, sent for the boys and treated them affectionately, as was natural, seeing that they were his own daughter's sons.
Their mother's father, Procles, the sovereign of
Anabasis
Ruler of Teuthrania and descendant of Damaratus who serves as messenger to the Greeks.
But the messengers from Ariaeus arrived—Procles and Cheirisophus only, for Menon stayed behind with Ariaeus;
They reported that Cyrus was dead, and that Ariaeus had fled and was now, along with the rest of the barbarians, at the stopping-place from which they had set out on the preceding day;
and Procles also came to the rescue, from Halisarna and Teuthrania, the descendant of Damaratus.
Against Pantaenetus
A man accused by Nicobulus of being in league with Pantaenetus as a witness or supporter.
—or that he comes into court with his confidence fixed upon the facts, and not rather upon assertions and upon the witnesses who are in league with him (that foul blackguard Procles, the tall fellow there, and Stratocles, the smoothest-tongued of men and the basest), and in his readiness to weep and wail without disguise or shame?
Against Athenogenes
A creditor of the perfumery, owed money for sweet oil, named alongside Pancalus as one of the debts actually disclosed in the sale agreement.
a debt for some sweet oil to Pancalus and Procles and any other sums which customers have invested in the perfumery in the ordinary course.
When I realized what a plight I was in, at long last I called together my friends and relatives and we read the copy of the agreement in which the names of Pancalus and Polycles were expressly written with the statement that certain sums were owing to them for sweet oil.