He lived, as
ing out great promises (apparently never realized) Josephus (c.
ing out great promises (apparently never realized) Josephus (c.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
;
He was killed at the battle of Delium, B. C. 424, Lys. pro Aristoph. Bon. & 50. ) Aelian's erroneous
where he was one of the generals. (Andoc. c. Alcib. account of his committing suicide is clearly nothing
p. 30. ) It must therefore have been his divorced | but gossip from Athenaeus by memory. (Ael. V. H.
wife, and not his widow, whom Pericles married. iv. 23 ; Perizon. ad loc. ) He left a legitimate son
(Plut. Peric. 24 ; comp. Palm. ad Aristoph. Av. named Hipponicus. (Andoc. de Myst. § 126, which
283 ; Wesseling, ad Diod. xii. 65. ) His daughter speech, from $ 110 to $ 131, has much reference
Hipparete became the wife of Alcibiades, with a to the profligacy of Callias. )
[E. E. )
dowry of ten talents, the largest, according to An- CALLIAS (Katrías). 1. A soothsayer of the
docides, that had ever before been given. (Andoc. sacred Elean family of the lamidae. (Pind. Olymp.
C. Alcib. p. 30; Plut. Alcib. 8. ) Another daughter vi. ), who, according to the account of the Croto-
of Hipponicus was married to Theodorus, and be nians, came over to their ranks from those of Sy-
came the mother of Isocrates the orator. (Isocr. de baris, when he saw that the sacrifices foreboded
Big. p. 353, a. ) In Plato's “ Cratylus," also (pp. destruction to the latter, B. C. 510. His services
384, 391), Hermogenes is mentioned as a son of to Crotona were rewarded by an allotment of land,
Hipponicus and brother of Callias ; but, as in p. of which his descendants were still in possession
391 he is spoken of as not sharing his father's pro- when Herodotus wrote. (Herod. v. 44, 45. )
perty, and his poverty is further alluded to by 2. A wealthy Athenian, who, on condition of
Xenophon (Meni. ii. 10), he must have been ille marrying Cimon's sister, Elpinice, paid for him the
gitimate. (See Dict. of Ant. pp. 472, a. , 598, b. ) fine of fifty talents which had been imposed on
For Hipponicus, see also Ael. V. H. xiv. 16, who Miltiades. (Plut. Cim. 4; Nepos, Cim. 1. ) He
tells an anecdote of him with reference to Poly- appears to have been unconnected with the nobler
cletus the sculptor.
family of Callias and Hipponicus, the Sądoù xou. It
6. Callias III. , son of Hipponicus III. by the seems likely that his wealth arose from mining,
lady who married Pericles (Plut. Peric. 24), was and that it was a son or grandson of his who dis-
notorious for his extravagance and profligacy. We covered a method of preparing cinnabar, B. C. 405.
have seen, that he must have succeeded to his for- (Böckh, Dissert. on the Mines of Laurion, $ 23. )
tune in B. C. 424, which is not perhaps irreconcile- 3. Son of Calliades, was appointed with four
able with the mention of him in the " Flatterers colleagues to the command of the second body of
of Eupolis, the comic poet, B. C. 421, as having Athenian forces sent against Perdiccas and the
recently entered on the inheritance. (Athen. v. p. revolted Chalcidians, B. C. 432, and was slain in
218, c. ) In B. c. 400, he was engaged in the at the battle against Aristeus near Potidaea. (Thuc.
tempt to crush Andocides by a charge of profa- i. 61-63; Diod. xii. 37. ) This is probably the
nation, in having placed a supplicatory bough on same Callias who is mentioned as a pupil of Zeno
the altar of the temple at Eleusis during the cele- the Eleatic, from whose instructions, purchased for
bration of the mysteries (Andoc. de Myst. $ 110, 100 minae, he is said to have derived much real
&c. ); and, if we may believe the statement of the advantage, oooós kal éradyomos gézovev. (Pseudo-
accused, the bough was placed there by Callias Plat. Alcil. i. p. 119; Buttmann, ad loc. )
himself, who was provoked at having been thwarted 4. The Chalcidian, son of Mnesarchus, together
by Andocides in a very disgraceful and profligate with his brother Taurosthenes, succeeded his father
attempt. In B. c. 392, we find him in command of in the tyranny of Chalcis, and formed an alliance
the Athenian heavy-armed troops at Corinth on with Philip of Macedon in order to support himself
the occasion of the famous defeat of the Spartan against Plutarchus, tyrant of Eretria, or rather
Mora by Iphicrates. (Xen. Hell. iv. 5. & 13. ) He with the view of extending his authority over the
was bercditary proxenus of Sparta, and, as such, whole of Euboea—a design which, according to
was chosen as one of the envoys empowered to Aeschines, he covered under the disguise of a plan
negotiate peace with that state in B. c. 371, on for uniting in onc league the states of the island,
which occasion Xenophon reports an extremely and establishing a general Euboean congress at
absurd and self-glorifying speech of his (Hell. vi. 3. Chalcis. Plutarchus accordingly applied to Athens
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568
CALLIAS.
CALLIBIUS.
for aid, which was granted in opposition to the ad- 1 Sovtes. Whether he is the same as the Callias
vice of Demosthenes, and an army was sent into Eu- whom Athenaeus (vii. p. 672, X. pp. 448, 453)
boea under the command of Phocion, who defeated calls the author of a ypaumatına Tpaywdían is un-
Callias at Tamynae, B. C. 350. (Acsch. c. Ctes. certain. (Comp. Athen. iv. pp. 140, 176, vii.
SS 85-88, de Fuls. Leg. $ 180; Dem. de Pac. § 5; p. 300, xii. pp. 524, 667; Pollux, vii. 113; Ety-
Plut. Phoc. 12. ) After this, Callias betook himself to mol. M. s. v. Elvai ; Meincke, Hist. Crit. Cuin.
the Macedonian court, where he was for some time Gr. p. 213, &c. )
high in the favour of the king; but, having in 2. Of Argos, a Greek poet, the author of an
some way offended him, he withdrew to Thebes, epigram upon Polycritus. (Anth. Graec. xi. 232;
in the hope of gaining her support in the further Brunck, Anal. ii. p. 3. )
ance of his views. Breaking, however, with the 3. Of Mytilene in Lesbos, a Greek grammarian
Thebans also, and fearing an attack both from them who lived before the time of Strabo (xiii. p. 618),
and from Philip, he applied to Athens, and through who mentions him among the celebrated persons
the influence of Demosthenes not only obtained born in Lesbos, and states that he wrote commen-
alliance, and an acknowledgment of the independ- taries on the poems of Sappho and Alcaeus. (Comp.
ence of Chalcis, but even induced the Athenians Athen. iii. p. 05. )
to transfer to that state the annual contributions Of Syracuse, a Greek historian who wrote a
(ouvráters) from Oreus and Eretria, Callias hold- great work on the history of Sicily.
He lived, as
ing out great promises (apparently never realized) Josephus (c. Apion. i. 3) expresses it, long after
of assistance in men and money from Achaia, Me- Philistus, but earlier than Timaeus. From the
gara, and Euboea. This seems to have been in nature of his work it is clear that he was a con-
B. c. 343, at the time of Philip's projected attempt temporary of Agathocles, whom, however, the
on Ambracia. Aeschines of course ascribes his historian survived, as he mentioned the death of
rival's support of Callias to corruption; but De- the tyrant. This work is sometimes called ta hepd
mosthenes may have thought that Euboea, united | Αγαθοκλέα, Or περί 'Αγαθοκλέα ιστορίαι, and
under a strong government, might serve as an effec- sometimes also by Roman writers “ Historia de
tual barrier to Philip's ambition. (Aesch. c. Ctes. Rebus Siculis. " (Athen. xii. p. 542; Aelian, Hist.
$ 89, &c. ; Dem. Philipp. iii. & 85; Thirlwall's An. xvi. 28 ; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 4);
Greece, vol. vi. p. 19. ) In B. c. 341, the defeat by Macrob. Sat. v. 19; Dionys. i. 42; Fest. s. v. Ro
Phocion of the Macedonian party in Eretria and mam. ) It embraced the history of Sicily during
Oreus under Cleitarchus and Philistides gave the the reign of Agathocles, from B. C. 317 to 289, and
supremacy in the island to Callias. (Dem. de Cor. consisted of twenty-two books. (Diod. xxi. Exc.
SS 86, 99, &c. ; Philipp. ii. SS 23, 75, 79; Diod. 12. p. 492. ) The very few fragments which we
xvi. 74; Plut. Dem. 17. ) Callias seems to have possess of the work do not enable us to form an
been still living in B. c. 330, the date of the ora- opinion upon it, but Diodorus (xxi. Exc. p. 561)
tions on “the Crown. ” See Aesch. c. Ctes. SS 85, states, that Callias was corrupted by Agathocles
87, who mentions proposal of Demosthenes to with rich bribes; that he sacrificed the truth of
confer on him and his brother Taurosthenes the history to base gain ; and that he went even so far
honour of Athenian citizenship.
in distorting the truth as to convert the crimes and
5. One of the Thespian ambassadors, who ap- the violation of the laws human and divine, of
peared at Chalcis before the Roman commissioners, which Agathocles was guilty, into praise worthy
Marcius and Atilius, to make a surrender of their actions. (Comp. Suid. s. v. Kantías. )
city, renouncing the alliance of Perseus, B. c. 172. There is another Callias of Syracuse, a contem-
In common with the deputies from all the Boeotian porary of Demosthenes, who occupied himself with
towns, except Thebes, they were favourably re- oratory, but who is mentioned only by Plutarch.
ceived by the Romans, whose object was to dis- |(Dem. 5, Vit. X Orat. p. 844, c. ) [L. S. ]
solve the Boeotian confederacy, -an object accom- CA'LLIAS, an architect of the island of Aradus,
plished in the same year. (Polyb. xxvii
. 1, 2; contemporary with Demetrius Poliorcetes. (Vitruv.
Lir. xlii. 43, 44; Clinton, Fast. ii. p. 80, iii. p. x. 16. 5. )
(W. I. )
398. )
(E. E. ] CALLI'BIUS (Karll610s). 1. The Harmost
CÁ'LLIAS(Karlías), literary. 1. A comic poet, who commanded the garrison with which the Spar-
was according to Suidas (s. v. ) a son of Lysimachus, tans occupied Athens at the request of the Thirty
and bore the name of Schoenion because his father tyrants, B. C. 404. The story told by Plutarch of
was a rope or basket maker (OXOLVOT Nókos). He his raising his staff to strike Autolycus the Athlete
belonged to the old Attic comedy, for Athenaeus (x. (whom the Thirty put to death for presuming to
p. 453) states, that he lived shortly before Strattis, resent the insult), shews that he formed no excep-
who appears to have commenced his career as a tion to the coarse and overbearing demeanour so
comic poet about B. C. 412. From the Scholiast common with Spartan governors.
The tyrants
on Aristophanes (Equit. 526) we further learn, conciliated his favour by the most studious de-
that Callias was an emulator of Cratinus. It is, ference, the above case is a strong instance of it,
therefore, probable that he began to come before --and he allowed them accordingly to use his sol-
the public prior to B. C. 424; and if it could be diers at their pleasure as the instruments of their
proved that he was the same person as Calliades oppression. (Xen. Hell. ii. 3. $$ 13, 14 ; Diod.
(Calliades), he would have lived at least till xiv. 4; Plut. Lysand. 15. )
B. C. 402. We still possess a few fragments of his 2. One of the leaders of the democratic party at
comedies, and the names of six are preserved in Tegea, B. c. 370, who having failed in obtaining
Suidas, viz. AigúrTiOS, 'Atarávan (Zenob. iv. 7), the sanction of the Tegean assembly for the pro-
KÚKAWTES (perhaps alluded to by Athen. ii. p. 57, ject of uniting the Arcadian towns into one body,
and Clem. "Alex. Strom. vi. p. 264), Tieontal endeavoured to gain their point by an appeal to
(Athen. viii. p. 314 ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Av. 31, arms. They were, however, defeated by the oli-
151; Diog. Laërt. ii. 18), Bátpaxui, and Exotá- garchical leader, Stasippus, and Proxenus, the colo
## p. 569 (#589) ############################################
CALLICRATES.
569
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llibius, was slain. Callibius on this abused his trust, and instigated the Romans to
th his forces close to the walls of the sap the independence of his country by giving
hile he affected to open a negotiation their support in every city to the Roman or anti-
pus, waited for the arrival of a rein- national party. Returning home with letters from
or which he had sent from Mantineia. the senate, pressing the recall of the exiles, and
arance, Stasippus and his friends fled highly commendatory of himself, he was made
ty and took refuge in the temple of general of the leaguc, and used all his influence
ut the party of Callibius unroofed the thenceforth for the furtherance of the Roman
ad attacked them with missiles, and cause. (Polyb. xxv. 1, 2, xxvi. 1-3. )
In B. C.
obliged to surrender, they were taken 174 he successfully resisted the proposal of Xenar-
d put to death after the mockery of a chus, who was at that time general, for an alliance
n. Hell. vi. 5. § 6, &c. ; comp. Paus. ) with Perseus. (Liv. xli. 23, 24. ) Early in B. C.
( E. E. ) 168 he opposed the motion of Lycortas and his
LES (Kadıklîs), a physician, who party for sending aid to the two Ptolemies (Philo-
bly in the third or second century B. C. , metor and Physcon) against Antiochus Epiphanes,
mentioned by Galen (Dc Meth. Mcd. recommending instead, that they should endeavour
· p.
He was killed at the battle of Delium, B. C. 424, Lys. pro Aristoph. Bon. & 50. ) Aelian's erroneous
where he was one of the generals. (Andoc. c. Alcib. account of his committing suicide is clearly nothing
p. 30. ) It must therefore have been his divorced | but gossip from Athenaeus by memory. (Ael. V. H.
wife, and not his widow, whom Pericles married. iv. 23 ; Perizon. ad loc. ) He left a legitimate son
(Plut. Peric. 24 ; comp. Palm. ad Aristoph. Av. named Hipponicus. (Andoc. de Myst. § 126, which
283 ; Wesseling, ad Diod. xii. 65. ) His daughter speech, from $ 110 to $ 131, has much reference
Hipparete became the wife of Alcibiades, with a to the profligacy of Callias. )
[E. E. )
dowry of ten talents, the largest, according to An- CALLIAS (Katrías). 1. A soothsayer of the
docides, that had ever before been given. (Andoc. sacred Elean family of the lamidae. (Pind. Olymp.
C. Alcib. p. 30; Plut. Alcib. 8. ) Another daughter vi. ), who, according to the account of the Croto-
of Hipponicus was married to Theodorus, and be nians, came over to their ranks from those of Sy-
came the mother of Isocrates the orator. (Isocr. de baris, when he saw that the sacrifices foreboded
Big. p. 353, a. ) In Plato's “ Cratylus," also (pp. destruction to the latter, B. C. 510. His services
384, 391), Hermogenes is mentioned as a son of to Crotona were rewarded by an allotment of land,
Hipponicus and brother of Callias ; but, as in p. of which his descendants were still in possession
391 he is spoken of as not sharing his father's pro- when Herodotus wrote. (Herod. v. 44, 45. )
perty, and his poverty is further alluded to by 2. A wealthy Athenian, who, on condition of
Xenophon (Meni. ii. 10), he must have been ille marrying Cimon's sister, Elpinice, paid for him the
gitimate. (See Dict. of Ant. pp. 472, a. , 598, b. ) fine of fifty talents which had been imposed on
For Hipponicus, see also Ael. V. H. xiv. 16, who Miltiades. (Plut. Cim. 4; Nepos, Cim. 1. ) He
tells an anecdote of him with reference to Poly- appears to have been unconnected with the nobler
cletus the sculptor.
family of Callias and Hipponicus, the Sądoù xou. It
6. Callias III. , son of Hipponicus III. by the seems likely that his wealth arose from mining,
lady who married Pericles (Plut. Peric. 24), was and that it was a son or grandson of his who dis-
notorious for his extravagance and profligacy. We covered a method of preparing cinnabar, B. C. 405.
have seen, that he must have succeeded to his for- (Böckh, Dissert. on the Mines of Laurion, $ 23. )
tune in B. C. 424, which is not perhaps irreconcile- 3. Son of Calliades, was appointed with four
able with the mention of him in the " Flatterers colleagues to the command of the second body of
of Eupolis, the comic poet, B. C. 421, as having Athenian forces sent against Perdiccas and the
recently entered on the inheritance. (Athen. v. p. revolted Chalcidians, B. C. 432, and was slain in
218, c. ) In B. c. 400, he was engaged in the at the battle against Aristeus near Potidaea. (Thuc.
tempt to crush Andocides by a charge of profa- i. 61-63; Diod. xii. 37. ) This is probably the
nation, in having placed a supplicatory bough on same Callias who is mentioned as a pupil of Zeno
the altar of the temple at Eleusis during the cele- the Eleatic, from whose instructions, purchased for
bration of the mysteries (Andoc. de Myst. $ 110, 100 minae, he is said to have derived much real
&c. ); and, if we may believe the statement of the advantage, oooós kal éradyomos gézovev. (Pseudo-
accused, the bough was placed there by Callias Plat. Alcil. i. p. 119; Buttmann, ad loc. )
himself, who was provoked at having been thwarted 4. The Chalcidian, son of Mnesarchus, together
by Andocides in a very disgraceful and profligate with his brother Taurosthenes, succeeded his father
attempt. In B. c. 392, we find him in command of in the tyranny of Chalcis, and formed an alliance
the Athenian heavy-armed troops at Corinth on with Philip of Macedon in order to support himself
the occasion of the famous defeat of the Spartan against Plutarchus, tyrant of Eretria, or rather
Mora by Iphicrates. (Xen. Hell. iv. 5. & 13. ) He with the view of extending his authority over the
was bercditary proxenus of Sparta, and, as such, whole of Euboea—a design which, according to
was chosen as one of the envoys empowered to Aeschines, he covered under the disguise of a plan
negotiate peace with that state in B. c. 371, on for uniting in onc league the states of the island,
which occasion Xenophon reports an extremely and establishing a general Euboean congress at
absurd and self-glorifying speech of his (Hell. vi. 3. Chalcis. Plutarchus accordingly applied to Athens
## p. 568 (#588) ############################################
568
CALLIAS.
CALLIBIUS.
for aid, which was granted in opposition to the ad- 1 Sovtes. Whether he is the same as the Callias
vice of Demosthenes, and an army was sent into Eu- whom Athenaeus (vii. p. 672, X. pp. 448, 453)
boea under the command of Phocion, who defeated calls the author of a ypaumatına Tpaywdían is un-
Callias at Tamynae, B. C. 350. (Acsch. c. Ctes. certain. (Comp. Athen. iv. pp. 140, 176, vii.
SS 85-88, de Fuls. Leg. $ 180; Dem. de Pac. § 5; p. 300, xii. pp. 524, 667; Pollux, vii. 113; Ety-
Plut. Phoc. 12. ) After this, Callias betook himself to mol. M. s. v. Elvai ; Meincke, Hist. Crit. Cuin.
the Macedonian court, where he was for some time Gr. p. 213, &c. )
high in the favour of the king; but, having in 2. Of Argos, a Greek poet, the author of an
some way offended him, he withdrew to Thebes, epigram upon Polycritus. (Anth. Graec. xi. 232;
in the hope of gaining her support in the further Brunck, Anal. ii. p. 3. )
ance of his views. Breaking, however, with the 3. Of Mytilene in Lesbos, a Greek grammarian
Thebans also, and fearing an attack both from them who lived before the time of Strabo (xiii. p. 618),
and from Philip, he applied to Athens, and through who mentions him among the celebrated persons
the influence of Demosthenes not only obtained born in Lesbos, and states that he wrote commen-
alliance, and an acknowledgment of the independ- taries on the poems of Sappho and Alcaeus. (Comp.
ence of Chalcis, but even induced the Athenians Athen. iii. p. 05. )
to transfer to that state the annual contributions Of Syracuse, a Greek historian who wrote a
(ouvráters) from Oreus and Eretria, Callias hold- great work on the history of Sicily.
He lived, as
ing out great promises (apparently never realized) Josephus (c. Apion. i. 3) expresses it, long after
of assistance in men and money from Achaia, Me- Philistus, but earlier than Timaeus. From the
gara, and Euboea. This seems to have been in nature of his work it is clear that he was a con-
B. c. 343, at the time of Philip's projected attempt temporary of Agathocles, whom, however, the
on Ambracia. Aeschines of course ascribes his historian survived, as he mentioned the death of
rival's support of Callias to corruption; but De- the tyrant. This work is sometimes called ta hepd
mosthenes may have thought that Euboea, united | Αγαθοκλέα, Or περί 'Αγαθοκλέα ιστορίαι, and
under a strong government, might serve as an effec- sometimes also by Roman writers “ Historia de
tual barrier to Philip's ambition. (Aesch. c. Ctes. Rebus Siculis. " (Athen. xii. p. 542; Aelian, Hist.
$ 89, &c. ; Dem. Philipp. iii. & 85; Thirlwall's An. xvi. 28 ; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 4);
Greece, vol. vi. p. 19. ) In B. c. 341, the defeat by Macrob. Sat. v. 19; Dionys. i. 42; Fest. s. v. Ro
Phocion of the Macedonian party in Eretria and mam. ) It embraced the history of Sicily during
Oreus under Cleitarchus and Philistides gave the the reign of Agathocles, from B. C. 317 to 289, and
supremacy in the island to Callias. (Dem. de Cor. consisted of twenty-two books. (Diod. xxi. Exc.
SS 86, 99, &c. ; Philipp. ii. SS 23, 75, 79; Diod. 12. p. 492. ) The very few fragments which we
xvi. 74; Plut. Dem. 17. ) Callias seems to have possess of the work do not enable us to form an
been still living in B. c. 330, the date of the ora- opinion upon it, but Diodorus (xxi. Exc. p. 561)
tions on “the Crown. ” See Aesch. c. Ctes. SS 85, states, that Callias was corrupted by Agathocles
87, who mentions proposal of Demosthenes to with rich bribes; that he sacrificed the truth of
confer on him and his brother Taurosthenes the history to base gain ; and that he went even so far
honour of Athenian citizenship.
in distorting the truth as to convert the crimes and
5. One of the Thespian ambassadors, who ap- the violation of the laws human and divine, of
peared at Chalcis before the Roman commissioners, which Agathocles was guilty, into praise worthy
Marcius and Atilius, to make a surrender of their actions. (Comp. Suid. s. v. Kantías. )
city, renouncing the alliance of Perseus, B. c. 172. There is another Callias of Syracuse, a contem-
In common with the deputies from all the Boeotian porary of Demosthenes, who occupied himself with
towns, except Thebes, they were favourably re- oratory, but who is mentioned only by Plutarch.
ceived by the Romans, whose object was to dis- |(Dem. 5, Vit. X Orat. p. 844, c. ) [L. S. ]
solve the Boeotian confederacy, -an object accom- CA'LLIAS, an architect of the island of Aradus,
plished in the same year. (Polyb. xxvii
. 1, 2; contemporary with Demetrius Poliorcetes. (Vitruv.
Lir. xlii. 43, 44; Clinton, Fast. ii. p. 80, iii. p. x. 16. 5. )
(W. I. )
398. )
(E. E. ] CALLI'BIUS (Karll610s). 1. The Harmost
CÁ'LLIAS(Karlías), literary. 1. A comic poet, who commanded the garrison with which the Spar-
was according to Suidas (s. v. ) a son of Lysimachus, tans occupied Athens at the request of the Thirty
and bore the name of Schoenion because his father tyrants, B. C. 404. The story told by Plutarch of
was a rope or basket maker (OXOLVOT Nókos). He his raising his staff to strike Autolycus the Athlete
belonged to the old Attic comedy, for Athenaeus (x. (whom the Thirty put to death for presuming to
p. 453) states, that he lived shortly before Strattis, resent the insult), shews that he formed no excep-
who appears to have commenced his career as a tion to the coarse and overbearing demeanour so
comic poet about B. C. 412. From the Scholiast common with Spartan governors.
The tyrants
on Aristophanes (Equit. 526) we further learn, conciliated his favour by the most studious de-
that Callias was an emulator of Cratinus. It is, ference, the above case is a strong instance of it,
therefore, probable that he began to come before --and he allowed them accordingly to use his sol-
the public prior to B. C. 424; and if it could be diers at their pleasure as the instruments of their
proved that he was the same person as Calliades oppression. (Xen. Hell. ii. 3. $$ 13, 14 ; Diod.
(Calliades), he would have lived at least till xiv. 4; Plut. Lysand. 15. )
B. C. 402. We still possess a few fragments of his 2. One of the leaders of the democratic party at
comedies, and the names of six are preserved in Tegea, B. c. 370, who having failed in obtaining
Suidas, viz. AigúrTiOS, 'Atarávan (Zenob. iv. 7), the sanction of the Tegean assembly for the pro-
KÚKAWTES (perhaps alluded to by Athen. ii. p. 57, ject of uniting the Arcadian towns into one body,
and Clem. "Alex. Strom. vi. p. 264), Tieontal endeavoured to gain their point by an appeal to
(Athen. viii. p. 314 ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Av. 31, arms. They were, however, defeated by the oli-
151; Diog. Laërt. ii. 18), Bátpaxui, and Exotá- garchical leader, Stasippus, and Proxenus, the colo
## p. 569 (#589) ############################################
CALLICRATES.
569
CALLICRATES.
ܪ
llibius, was slain. Callibius on this abused his trust, and instigated the Romans to
th his forces close to the walls of the sap the independence of his country by giving
hile he affected to open a negotiation their support in every city to the Roman or anti-
pus, waited for the arrival of a rein- national party. Returning home with letters from
or which he had sent from Mantineia. the senate, pressing the recall of the exiles, and
arance, Stasippus and his friends fled highly commendatory of himself, he was made
ty and took refuge in the temple of general of the leaguc, and used all his influence
ut the party of Callibius unroofed the thenceforth for the furtherance of the Roman
ad attacked them with missiles, and cause. (Polyb. xxv. 1, 2, xxvi. 1-3. )
In B. C.
obliged to surrender, they were taken 174 he successfully resisted the proposal of Xenar-
d put to death after the mockery of a chus, who was at that time general, for an alliance
n. Hell. vi. 5. § 6, &c. ; comp. Paus. ) with Perseus. (Liv. xli. 23, 24. ) Early in B. C.
( E. E. ) 168 he opposed the motion of Lycortas and his
LES (Kadıklîs), a physician, who party for sending aid to the two Ptolemies (Philo-
bly in the third or second century B. C. , metor and Physcon) against Antiochus Epiphanes,
mentioned by Galen (Dc Meth. Mcd. recommending instead, that they should endeavour
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