Teisias
historical figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the arbitrator Teisias · Iphicrates' brother · Teisias of Rhamnos · Teisias, of Acharnae · my father · the arbitrator
spoken of as
1 expressionTeisias of Rhamnos1 mention
Against Timarchus (Greek)
and again, among the youths and those who are still boys, first, you know the nephew of Iphicrates, the son of Teisias of Rhamnos, of the same name as the defendant.
in the texts
Against Timarchus
Father of the youth also named Timarchus, mentioned to distinguish him from the defendant.
and again, among the youths and those who are still boys, first, you know the nephew of Iphicrates, the son of Teisias of Rhamnos, of the same name as the defendant.
Against Callicles
The speaker's father, named Teisias in a hypothetical address, who built the enclosing wall around the land.
and my father lived on more than fifteen years longer, and their father as many.
for how is it that not one of them ever protested, or lodged a complaint, or even uttered a word of censure, but they were content to submit to this injury?
Do they not prove also that the land was walled in during the lifetime of their father without opposition being made by these men or any other of the neighbors?
Against Meidias
Brother of Iphicrates and chorus-master in competition with Diocles.
Yet it is said that the famous Iphicrates once had a serious quarrel with Diocles of the Pitthean deme, and, to make matters worse, Iphicrates’ brother Teisias happened to be a chorus-master in competition with Diocles.
Against Stephanus I
The Acharnaean arbitrator involved in the earlier dispute between Apollodorus and Phormio.
Well, then, it is deposed by them that Phormio challenged me to open the will which Amphias, brother—in—law of Cephisophon, submitted to the arbitrator Teisias;
Well, my father died at Athens, the arbitration took place in the Painted Stoa, and these men have deposed that Amphias produced the document before the arbitrator.
The deponents testify that they are friends and associates of Phormio, and that they were present hefore the arbitrator Teisias when the announcement of the award was made in the suit between Apollodorus and Phormio, and that they know that Stephanus filched away the deposition which Apollodorus charges him, with having stolen.
Against Stephanus II
The arbitrator before whom Phormio allegedly challenged Apollodorus to open the document.
I wish therefore to prove to you that the deposition is not a challenge, and to show you how they ought to have deposed if the challenge was given, which it was not,— The deponents testify that they were present before the arbitrator Teisias, when Phormio challenged Apollodorus to open the document which Amphias, the brother-in-law of Cephisophon, produced, and that Apollodorus refused to open it.
Concerning the Team of Horses
The plaintiff who brings suit against the speaker, claiming the team of horses was wrongfully taken from him.
you did not act under compulsion, but you were a willing agent;
But on the subject of the political misdeeds of Teisias, very likely some day at his trial I shall have the opportunity of speaking at greater length.
but as Teisias often reproaches me with my father’s banishment, and is more zealous concerning your affairs than he is regarding his own, I must address my defense to these matters.