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.
) Take this law again, please.
In this class the defendant will be shown to belong;
Do you hear, you abominable beast, what the statute says?
On the Crown
Figure used in a mocking comparison of Aeschines' oratory.
then we hear the great tragedian, the Theocrines of the legitimate drama.