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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 48 48 Browse Search
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Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 3 3 Browse Search
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Isaeus, Dicaeogenes, section 7 (search)
When they had thus divided up the inheritance, having sworn not to transgress the terms agreed upon, each remained in possession of the share which he had received for twelve years. During all this period, though the courts sat, no one of them thought of claiming that there was any injustice in what had been done, until, when the city suffered misfortune and strife arose,The reference is to the internal troubles at Athens which followed the defeat at Aegospotami in 405 B.C. Dicaeogenes （III.） here, acting at the instigation of Melas the Egyptian, whose advice he followed in everything, claimed from us the whole estate, alleging that he had been adopted as sole heir by our unc
Isaeus, Dicaeogenes, section 36 (search)
us for his tribe at the Dionysia and was fourth; as choregus in the tragic contest and Pyrrhic dances he was last.In the dithyrambic contests the competition was by tribes, thus the chorus of which Dicaeogenes was choregus was placed fourth out of ten competing choruses. The tragic competition was between three choruses, not organized on a tribal basis. The Pyrrhic or Warrior Dance was executed at the Panathenaic festival; there is no evidence as to the number of competing choruses. These were the only public services which he undertook and then only under compulsion, and this was the fine show he made as choregus in spite of his great wealth! Moreover, though so many trierarchs were appointed, he never acted in this capacity by himself nor has he ever been associated in it with anotherAfter the battle of Aegospotami （405 B.C.） two citizens might jointly equip a vessel of war. in all those years of crisis; yet others possessing less capital than he has income, act as trierarc