Satyrus
historical figure · 10 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Satyrus of Alopecê · Satyrus of Melitê · Satyrus the comic actor · the filial
spoken of as
4 expressionsSatyrus of Alopecê1 mention
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek)
) Please call Satyrus of Alopecê, Saurias of Lamptrae, and Aristogeiton of Acharnae.
Satyrus of Melitê1 mention
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek)
For no sooner had Phrastor got up from that sickness and recovered his health and was fairly well, than he took to wife according to the laws an Athenian woman, the legitimate daughter of Satyrus, of Melitê, and the sister of Diphilus.
Satyrus the Phrygian1 mention
Stromata (Greek)
They say also that Satyrus the Phrygian found the transverse pipe;
Satyrus the comic actor1 mention
On the Embassy (Greek)
But these wicked arts of rhetoric, which Demosthenes offers to teach our youth, and has now employed against me, his tears and groans for Hellas, and his praise of Satyrus the comic actor, because over the cups he begged of Philip the release of certain friends of his who were captives in chains, digging in Philip’s vineyard—you remember, do you not, how after this preface he lifted up that shrill …
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Father of the legitimate Athenian woman whom Phrastor married after recovering from his illness.
For no sooner had Phrastor got up from that sickness and recovered his health and was fairly well, than he took to wife according to the laws an Athenian woman, the legitimate daughter of Satyrus, of Melitê, and the sister of Diphilus.
) Please call Satyrus of Alopecê, Saurias of Lamptrae, and Aristogeiton of Acharnae.
On behalf of Phrynion, Satyrus of Alopecê, the brother of Lacedaemonius, sat as arbitrator, and on behalf of Stephanus here, Saurias of Lamptrae;
On the Embassy
Comic actor praised in Demosthenes' speech for interceding with Philip for captive friends.
But these wicked arts of rhetoric, which Demosthenes offers to teach our youth, and has now employed against me, his tears and groans for Hellas, and his praise of Satyrus the comic actor, because over the cups he begged of Philip the release of certain friends of his who were captives in chains, digging in Philip’s vineyard—you remember, do you not, how after this preface he lifted up that shrill …
Nicomachean Ethics
Figure nicknamed 'the filial' for excessive devotion to his father.
and inasmuch as in relation to all these naturally desirable things, as well as to the neutral ones, men are not blamed merely for regarding or desiring or liking them, but for doing so in a certain way, namely to excess (hence those who yield to or pursue, contrary to principle, anything naturally noble and good, for example those who care too much for honor, or for their children and their paren …
Stromata
Phrygian credited with inventing the transverse pipe.
They say also that Satyrus the Phrygian found the transverse pipe;
Against Androtion
A dockyard official who collected large sums properly and equipped ships.
Satyrus, the superintendent of the dock-yards, collected for you not seven, but thirty-four talents from these very same men, and used the money to equip the ships that were put in commission;
For Phormio
Former slave of Socrates who married Socrates’s wife.
For he is not unaware of this—it is no secret to him or to many of you—that Socrates, the well-known banker, having been set free by his masters just as the plaintiff’s father had been, gave his wife in marriage to Satyrus who had been his slave.
On the False Embassy
Athenian comedian whose humane request to Philip contrasts with the accused envoys' conduct.
I earnestly beg you, he went on, to bestow them on me.
At the entertainment at which he crowned the successful competitors, he asked Satyrus, the comedian of our city, why he was the only guest who had not asked any favor;
Thereupon Satyrus told him that Apollophanes of Pydna had been a friend of his, and that after his death by assassination his kinsmen in alarm had secretly removed his daughters, who were then children, to Olynthus.
Trapeziticus
The ruler of the Bosporan kingdom (Pontus) who arrests Sopaeus on suspicion, later exonerates him, and writes a letter supporting the plaintiff.
Letter
but when I had arranged matters with the representatives of Satyrus, I perceived that he had designs on my property.
if I should make this complaint, I was none the more likely to recover it and I should bring myself and my father into the greatest disrepute with Satyrus.
Protagoras
A slave boy belonging to Hippocrates who had run away, causing Hippocrates' delay.
My boy Satyrus, you see, had run away:
Hellenica
The most audacious and shameless of the Eleven's attendants, who physically seizes and drags Theramenes from the altar and threatens him on the way to execution.
when Satyrus told him that if he did not keep quiet, he would suffer for it, he asked:
When Critias had spoken these words, Satyrus dragged Theramenes away from the altar, and his servants lent their aid.
and when they came in, attended by their servants and with Satyrus, the most audacious and shameless of them, at their head, Critias said: