Oreus
place · 8 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages
men of Oreus · city · their city
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
The place associated with Anaxinus and Demosthenes' alleged betrayal of hospitality.
And you twice put to the torture with your own hand and moved to punish with death the same man in whose house you had been entertained at Oreus.
And when at last you were on the point of being impeached by me, did you not contrive the arrest of Anaxinus of Oreus, who was making purchases for Olympias?
On the Embassy
A place in Euboea used in the accusation that the ambassadors delayed instead of aiding Cersobleptes.
and is it true, Demosthenes, that you at Athens tried to exclude Cersobleptes from the treaty, but pitied him when you got to Oreus?
that when Demosthenes urged that we should go to Thrace, where Cersobleptes was being besieged, and should solemnly call on Philip to cease doing this thing, I, as leader of the ambassadors and influential with you, refused, and sat down in Oreus, I and the rest of the ambassadors, busy with getting foreign consulships for ourselves.
Against Aristocrates
Euboean city connected with Charidemus through his mother.
that whereas the people of Oreus, who inhabit only a fourth part of Euboea, dealing with this very Charidemus, whose mother belongs to their city,—I will not mention who his father is or where he comes from, for it is not worth while to make unnecessary inquiries about the man,—so that he himself contributed one-half of the birth-qualification, have never to this day thought fit to make up the oth …
Fourth Philippic
Euboean city used as evidence of Philip's aggression and denial.
so he bought up Antrones and soon afterwards got Oreus under his control.
For of course he will deny that he is attacking us, just as he denied that he was attacking the men of Oreus, when his troops were already in their territory, or the Pheraeans before that, when he was actually assaulting their walls, or the Olynthians at the start, until he was inside their frontier with his army.
On the Chersonese
A city cited as a precedent for Philip's military intrusion and denial.
What if he quits Thrace and never approaches the Chersonese or Byzantium—for you must take that also into your reckoning—but turns up at Chalcis and Megara, just as he did at Oreus not long ago?
For of course he will deny that he is attacking us, just as he denied that he was attacking the men of Oreus, when his troops were already in their territory, or the Pheraeans before that, when he was actually assaulting their walls, or the Olynthians at the start, until he was inside their frontiers with his army.
On the Crown
Euboean city involved in Demosthenes' anti-Philip actions.
then an expedition— not an embassy—to Oreus, and again to Eretria, when he had set up tyrants in those cities.
Now that Philistides would have paid a large sum for possession of Oreus, and Cleitarchus for possession of Eretria, and Philip himself to get those advantages of position against you, or to escape conviction in other matters or any inquiry into his wrongdoing in every quarter, is well known to all—and to no one better than to you, Aeschines.
On the False Embassy
Place where the envoys joined Proxenus before delaying their route to Macedonia.
When we had arrived at Oreus and joined Proxenus, instead of obeying their instructions and proceeding by sea, they started on a roundabout tour.
Hellenica
A city guarded by Alcetas where prisoners seize the Acropolis and cause revolt.
But while they were buying up the corn, Alcetas, the Lacedaemonian who was keeping guard in Oreus, manned three triremes, taking care that the fact should not be reported.
Now since, as the story ran, there was a boy of Oreus, an extremely fine lad too, who was always in attendance upon him, Alcetas went down from the Acropolis and occupied himself with this boy.