Theocrines
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 16 anchored passages
the defendant · this abominable fellow · this fellow · this fellow Theocrines · this god-detested fellow · this man Theocrines · you abominable beast
in the texts
Against Theocrines
The defendant in this prosecution, a professional accuser (sycophant) charged with lodging illegal indictments and denunciations for profit, including the original prosecution that ruined the speaker's father, and with being himself a disqualified state debtor.
With much better reason, men of Athens, would you commend the members of the tribe Leontis, who compelled Theocrines to pay the seven minae, than this fellow himself.
There is now a fourth law (for I admit that I have looked closely into most of the things which the defendant has done) according to which this Theocrines owes five hundred drachmae, since his father had not paid a fine of that amount to which he had been sentenced for having sought to maintain that the maid-servant of Cephisodorus was a free woman.
Inasmuch as my father, men of the jury, through this man Theocrines was brought to disaster in his relations to the state and condemned to pay a fine of ten talents, and as this fine has been doubled, so that we have not the slightest hope of deliverance, I have thought it my duty to lodge this criminal information with a view to taking vengeance upon the defendant with your aid, without taking in …
On the Crown
Figure used in a mocking comparison of Aeschines' oratory.
then we hear the great tragedian, the Theocrines of the legitimate drama.