Theodotus

To Theodotus, Bishop of Nicopolis

Know, too, that Faustus came to us bearing letters from the Pope, asking that he be made bishop.

But since our most beloved brother Sanctissimus, the fellow-presbyter, has undertaken the journey as far as you, through him I greet your orderly self, and beg you to pray for me and to lend your ear to the aforesaid man, so that you may learn from him in what state the affairs of the churches are, and may bring what diligence you can to the matters before us.

Likewise too Theodotus the Pythagorean did, and Paulus the acquaintance of Lacydes, as Timotheus of Pergamum says in his work On the Courage of the Philosophers, and Achaeus in his Ethics.

Theodotus, privileged alien, Charinus, son of Epichares, of Leuconium, Phormio, son of Ctephisophon, of Peiraeus, Cephisodotus of Boeotia and Heliodorus of Pitthus depose that they were present when Androcles lent to Artemo three thousand drachmae in silver, and that they know they deposited the agreement with Archenomides of Anagyrus.

Theodotus, men of Athens, after hearing us several times, and being convinced that Lampis was giving false testimony, did not dismiss the suit, but referred us to the court.

as if, forsooth, it were proper that they should be tried before Theodotus, the privileged alien, without a special plea, but, when we enter the Athenian court, the action should no longer be admissible.

and we referred it by agreement to Theodotus, a privileged alien Lampis after that, thinking that it would now, before an arbitrator, be safe for him to testify just as he pleased, divided my money with this fellow Phormio, and then gave testimony the very opposite of what he had stated before.

That I never laid a hand on Benedicta or Theodotus, and that, when later I was caught up in passions of love, I was cured.

Then here are others whose brothers joined in my conversations, Nicostratus, son of Theozotides and brother of Theodotus (now Theodotus is dead, so he could not stop him by entreaties), and Paralus, son of Demodocus;

Who is not hostile to Theodotus and Achillas and to the boy himself who dared a deed beyond a boy's daring?