Socles
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Socles, a Corinthian
in the texts
The Histories
Corinthian delegate who delivers a speech to the Spartan-led congress condemning the restoration of tyranny and recounting Corinth's own tyrannical history.
The rest then keeping silence, Socles, a Corinthian, said,
“In truth heaven will be beneath the earth and the earth aloft above the heaven, and men will dwell in the sea and fishes where men dwelt before, now that you, Lacedaemonians, are destroying the rule of equals and making ready to bring back tyranny into the cities, tyranny, a thing more unrighteous and bloodthirsty than anything else on this earth.
If indeed it seems to you to be a good thing that the cities be ruled by tyrants, set up a tyrant among yourselves first and then seek to set up such for the rest. As it is, however, you, who have never made trial of tyrants and take the greatest precautions that none will arise at Sparta, deal wrongfully with your allies. If you had such experience of that thing as we have, you would be more prud …
For Phormio
Banking figure cited as a marriage precedent.
Another, Socles, who had been in the banking business, gave his wife in marriage to Timodemus, who is still in being and alive, who had been his slave.