Thrasyllus
historical figure · 9 works · 11 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Thrasylus · the father of the testator · the father of this woman
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
One of the five Argive generals who, without popular authorization, negotiated the truce with Agis before Mantinea, and was nearly stoned by his own citizens as a result.
On their return therefore they began to stone Thrasyllus in the bed of the Charadrus, where they try all causes that may arise from any expedition, before they enter the city.
But two individuals of the Argives, Thrasyllus, one of the five generals, and Alciphron, the proxenus of the Lacedaemonians, when the armies were now on the very point of engaging, went to Agis, and in a conference urged him not to bring on a battle;
And the soldiers immediately held an assembly, in which they deposed their former generals, and any of the trierarchs whom they suspected, and chose others in their place, both trierarchs and generals;
Against Timarchus
A deceased Athenian whose tomb near the silver mines served as a landmark for locating property belonging to Timarchus's father's estate.
For the father, afraid of the special services to which he would be liable, sold the property that he owned (with the exception of the items I have mentioned)—a piece of land in Cephisia, another in Amphitrope, and two workshops at the silver mines, one of them in Aulon, the other near the tomb of Thrasyllus.
On the Mysteries
A prominent Athenian summoned by Andocides at the close of the speech to publicly vouch for his character before the jury.
And now I will ask men who have given public proof of their outstanding worth to take my place here and give you their opinion of me.
Stromata
Thrasyllus, cited as the source for the interval between the flood and the conflagration of Ida.
And from the flood to the conflagration of Ida and the finding of iron and the Idaean Dactyls, seventy-three years, as Thrasyllus says.
Apollodorus Against Callippus
Brother of Megacleides and co-borrower in Lycon's forty-mina loan.
Lycon had lent to Megacleides of Eleusis and his brother Thrasyllus the sum of forty minae for a voyage to Acê but, when they changed their minds and decided not to risk the voyage to that point, Lycon, after making some complaints against Megacleides regarding the interest, and believing that he had been deceived, quarrelled with him and went to law for the purpose of recovering his loan.
Aegineticus
The self-made soothsayer father of Thrasylochus (and of the female claimant), who built a fortune through the craft of divination inherited from Polemaenetus.
However, I do not believe that I need evade the judgement of Thrasyllus.
Thrasyllus, with these books as his capital, practised the art of divination.
Thrasyllus, the father of the testator, had inherited nothing from his parents;
Theages
Athenian commander with whom Sannio set out on the expedition toward Ephesus and Ionia.
For as the handsome Sannio was setting out on campaign, the sign occurred to me, and he has gone now with Thrasyllus on an expedition bound for Ephesus and Ionia.
Hellenica
Athenian general commanding in the right wing at Arginusae whose proposed division of the fleet between pursuit and rescue becomes central to the defense at trial.
and beside him was Thrasyllus with fifteen more;
But Thrasyllus said that both things would be accomplished if they should leave some of the ships there and should sail with the rest against the enemy;
and if this plan were decided upon, he advised that each of the generals, who were eight in number, should leave behind three ships from his own division, and that they should also leave the ten ships of the taxiarchs, the ten of the Samians, and the three of the nauarchs.
Memorabilia
One of the Athenian generals whom the Assembly sought to condemn to death by a single unlawful vote, a motion Socrates refused to put while presiding.
For instance, when he was on the Council and had taken the counsellor’s oath by which he bound himself to give counsel in accordance with the laws, it fell to his lot to preside in the Assembly when the people wanted to condemn Thrasyllus and Erasinides and their colleagues to death by a single vote.