Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 5 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"Plutarch
Philosophy
Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 5 (of 5) : $b Comprising all his works collected under the title of "Morals"
Plutarch
Classical literature; Essays; Ethics; Philosophy
After his death Menesaechmus accusing and indicting them by virtue
of an instrument drawn by Thracycles, his sons were delivered to the
eleven executioners of Justice. But Demosthenes, being in exile,
wrote to the Athenians, to let them know that they were wrongfully
accused, and that therefore they did not well to hear their accusers;
upon which they recanted what they had done, and set them at liberty
again,—Democles, who was Theophrastus’s scholar, likewise pleading in
their defence. Lycurgus and some of his posterity were buried publicly,
at or near the temple of Minerva Paeonia, where their monuments stand
in the garden of Melanthius the philosopher, on which are inscriptions
to Lycurgus and his children, which are yet extant. The greatest thing
he did while he lived was his raising the revenue of the commons
totally from sixty talents, as he found it, to twelve hundred. When
he found he must die, he was by his own appointment carried into the
temple of the Mother of the Gods, and into the senate-house, being
willing before his death to give an account of his administration. And
no man daring to accuse him of any thing except Menesaechmus, having
purged himself from those calumnies which he cast upon him, he was
carried home again, where in a short time he ended his life. He was
always accounted honest; his orations were commended for the eloquence
they carried in them; and though he was often accused, yet he never was
overthrown in any suit.
He had three children by Callisto, the daughter of Abron, and sister
of Callias, Abron’s son, by descent a Batesian,—I mean, of him who,
when Chaerondas was magistrate, was paymaster to the army. Of this
affinity Dinarchus speaks in his oration against Pastius. He left
behind him three sons, Abron, Lycurgus, and Lycophron; of which,
Abron and Lycurgus died without issue, though the first, Abron, did
for some time act very acceptably and worthily in affairs of the
commonwealth. Lycophron, marrying Callistomacha, the daughter of
Philip of Aexone, begat Callisto, who married Cleombrotus the son
of Dinocrates the Acharnian, to whom she bare Lycophron, who, being
adopted by his grandfather, died without issue. He being dead, Socrates
married Callisto, of whom he had his son Symmachus. To him was born
Aristonymus; to Aristonymus, Charmides, who was the father of Philippe.
Of her and Lysander came Medeius, who also was an interpreter, one
of the Eumolpids. He begat two children of Timothea, the daughter
of Glaucus, viz. Laodamia and Medius, who were priests of Neptune
Erechtheus; also Philippe a daughter, who was afterward priestess of
Minerva; for before, she was married to Diocles of Melite, to whom
she bare a son named Diocles, who was a colonel of a regiment of
foot. He married Hediste, the daughter of Abron, and of her begat
Philippides and Nicostrata, whom Themistocles the torch-bearer, son of
Theophrastus, married, and by her had Theophrastus and Diocles; and he
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