. ias, and uncle by themothers side to Plato, who introduces him inthe dialogue which bears his name as a very young man at the commencement of the Pelo- ponnesian war. In 404 he was one of the. Ten, and was slain fighting against Thrasybulusj at the Piraeus I Xen. Hcu. ii. 4, Mem. iii. 7).—2. Called also Charmadas by Cicero, a friend ofPhilo of Larissa, in conjunction witli whom heis unid by some to linvi- been the founder of u4th Academy. He lived 100. Cicero praises 222 CHARON CHEOPS his powers of memory and his eloquenc
. ias, and uncle by themothers side to Plato, who introduces him inthe dialogue which bears his name as a very young man at the commencement of the Pelo- ponnesian war. In 404 he was one of the. Ten, and was slain fighting against Thrasybulusj at the Piraeus I Xen. Hcu. ii. 4, Mem. iii. 7).—2. Called also Charmadas by Cicero, a friend ofPhilo of Larissa, in conjunction witli whom heis unid by some to linvi- been the founder of u4th Academy. He lived 100. Cicero praises 222 CHARON CHEOPS his powers of memory and his eloquence (de 11, 18; Tusc. i. 24, 59; Acad. i. 6,16). Charon (Xdpau). 1. Son of Erebos, conveyedin his boat the shades of the dead across therivers of the lower world. For this service hewas paid with an obolus or danaces: the coinwas placed in the mouth of every corpse beforeits burial (Lucian, Mort. Dial. i. 3, xi. 4). Itshould be noticed that Charon is not mentionedin Homer, and appears first in the Minyas ofthe Theban epic cycle. He is represented as an. Charon, Hermes, and Soul. (From a Roman lamp.) ugly bearded man clothed in the exomis.—2. Adistinguished Theban, concealed Pelopidas andhis fellow conspirators in his house, when theyreturned to Thebes with the view of deliveringit from the Spartans, 379.—3, A historianof Lampsacus, lived about 460 , and wroteworks on Aethiopia, Persia, Greece, &c, thefragments of which are collected by Miiller,Fragm. Histor. Graec. Charondas (XapdvSas), a lawgiver of Catana,who legislated for his own and the other citiesof Chalcidian origin in Sicily and Italy. Hisdate is uncertain. He is said by some to havebeen a disciple of Pythagoras; and he musthave lived before the time of Anaxilaus, tyrantof Khegium, 494-476, for the Ehegians usedthe laws of Charondas till they were abolishedby Anaxilaus. The latter fact sufficiently re-futes the common account that Charondas drewup a code of laws for Thurii, since this city wasno
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