Pythodorus

For instance, is there anyone who is ignorant that Pythodorus, called “the shop-keeper,” whose words and acts are all in Pasion’s interest, last year opened the voting-urns and removed the ballots naming the judges which had been cast by the Council?

And yet when a man who, for petty gain and at the peril of his life, has the effrontery to open secretly the urns that had been stamped by the prytanes and sealed by the choregi, urns that were guarded by the treasurers and kept on the Acropolis, why should there be surprise that men, who hoped to make so great a profit, falsified an insignificant written agreement in the possession of a foreigner …

Pythodorus, the Phoenician, introduced Pasion to me and I opened an account at his bank.

for Pythodorus, the third of them, had already arrived in Sicily before them.

But on the arrival of the generals, the Athenians at home banished Pythodorus and Sophocles, and fined Eurymedon, on the belief of their having been bribed to return, when they might have brought Sicily under their dominion.

The decree of Pythodorus was of this kind:

But after the disaster in Sicily, when the affairs of the Lacedaemonians became stronger through the alliance with the King, they were compelled to alter the democracy and establish the constitution of the Four Hundred—Melobius having spoken the speech before the decree, and Pythodorus of Anaphlystus having drafted the proposal, the many being most readily persuaded because they thought the King w …

Not long after this, however, one evening, when I was taking a walk, as my custom was, in the agora with Phanostratus of Cephisia, a man of my own age, Ctesias, the son of the defendant, passed by me in a drunken state opposite the Leocorion, near the house of Pythodorus.

For when they might have got rid of all trouble, and have avoided the risk which they run in coming into your court, by establishing in fact the truth of their testimony, they have refused to deliver up the woman, whom they have testified that Theophemus was ready to deliver up, and had offered to deliver up before the arbitrator, Pythodorus of Cedae, but whose surrender I, in fact, demanded, as t …

Well, when he paid no heed to what he heard from Euctemon and Deinias, later on Pythodorus of Acharnae, and Apollodorus of Leuconoë, friends and connections of mine, again approached him, and urged him to go and take over the ship, as he had been designated as my successor;

Pythodorus was prepared to agree with Euctemon and Phanostratus, who was present, that the document should be destroyed;

Euctemon listened to them and immediately demanded the document back from Pythodorus and served upon him a summons to produce it.

Euctemon, taking certain persons with him, came to where the ship was anchored, and having drawn up a document detailing the conditions under which he introduced the child, deposited it in the presence of those men with his relative Pythodorus of Cephisia.

Pythodorus said that Zeno answered with a smile:

Antiphon, then, said that Pythodorus told him that Zeno and Parmenides once came to the Great Panathenaea;

Antiphon said that Pythodorus told him that when Zeno said this he himself and Antisthenes and the rest begged Parmenides to show his meaning by an example and not to refuse.

Since, however, Pythodorus was chosen during the time of the oligarchy, the Athenians do not use his name to mark the year, but call it the archonless year.