Speaker's grandfather
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
my grandfather · Andocides · Epichares · my grandfather Epichares · my grandfather, Andocides · our grandfather
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3 expressionsAndocides“the speaker's grandfather”1 mention
On the Peace with Sparta (Greek)
So a deputation of ten —among them my grandfather, Andocides — was chosen from the whole citizen body and dispatched to Sparta with unlimited powers to negotiate a peace.
Epichares“the speaker's grandfather”1 mention
Against Theocrines (Greek)
Remember, therefore, men of the jury, the wickedness of these men, and remember also our ancestors, of whom Epichares, my grandfather, was victor in the foot-race for boys at Olympia and won a crown for the city, and enjoyed good report among your ancestors as long as he lived;
The speaker's grandfather1 mention
Orations (Greek)
For my grandfather, together with my mother, obtained from the emperor of that time, who was his friend, at one and the same time the Roman citizenship and yours;
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Orations
The speaker's grandfather, who spent his fortune on public service and sought freedom for the city.
For the estate which he had inherited from father and grandfather he spent entirely upon public ambition, so that he had nothing left, and then acquired another by his learning and from the emperors.
My grandfather, at any rate, had he longer enjoyed the friendship of the emperor of that time, and had the period not been altogether brief, intended, as they say, to win freedom for the city, and had already made his proposal concerning this.
For my grandfather, together with my mother, obtained from the emperor of that time, who was his friend, at one and the same time the Roman citizenship and yours;
On the Peace with Sparta
The speaker's grandfather, one of ten Athenian envoys sent with full powers to Sparta to negotiate the thirty years' peace after the war over Aegina.
So a deputation of ten —among them my grandfather, Andocides — was chosen from the whole citizen body and dispatched to Sparta with unlimited powers to negotiate a peace.
Against Theocrines
The speaker's grandfather, an Olympic victor in the boys' foot-race, invoked as an example of the family's honorable service to the city.
Remember, therefore, men of the jury, the wickedness of these men, and remember also our ancestors, of whom Epichares, my grandfather, was victor in the foot-race for boys at Olympia and won a crown for the city, and enjoyed good report among your ancestors as long as he lived;