Xanthias
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Embassy
Comic dramatic role named in Demosthenes' reported comparison.
How outrageous that when a man whose business it is to act the parts of a Carion or of a Xanthias showed himself so noble and generous, Aeschines, the counsellor of the greatest city, the adviser of the Ten Thousand of Arcadia, did not restrain his insolence, but in drunken heat, when Xenodocus, one of the picked corps of Philip, was entertaining us, seized a captive woman by the hair, and took a …
Clouds
Strepsiades' slave, summoned to help tear down the roof of Socrates' school as part of the arson.
Xanthias mounts upon the roof.
Come forth with a ladder and with a mattock and then mount upon the thinking-shop and dig down the roof, if you love your master, until you tumble the house upon them.