Charicles

(Χαρικλῆς), an Athenian demagogue, son of Apollodorus, was one of the commissioners (Ζητηταί) appointed to investigate the affair of the mutilation of the Hermae in B. C. 415, on which occasion he inflamed the passions of the with a plot for the destruction of the democracy. (Thuc. 6.27_29, 53, 60, &c.; Andoc. de Myst. p. 6.) In B. C. 413 he was sent in command of a squadron round the Peloponnesus together with Demosthenes, and succeeded with him in fortifying a small peninsula on the coast of Laconia, to serve as a position for annoying the enemy. (Thuc. 7.20, 26.) In B. C. 404 he was appointed one of the thirty tyrants; nor did he relinquish under the new government the coarse arts of the demagogue which had distinguished him under the democracy, violent and tyrannical measures. We may conclude, that he was one of the remnant of the Thirty who withdrew to Eleusis on the establishment of the council of Ten, and who, according to Xenophon, were treacherously murdered in a conference by the leaders of the popular party on the restoration of democracy in B. C. 403. (Xen. Hell. 2.3.2, 4. §§ 24, 43, Mem. 1.2. §§ 31, &c.; Arist. Polit. 5.6, ed. Bekk.; Lys. c. Erat. p. 125; Isocr. de Big. p. 355d.) In the passage last referred to Charicles is mentioned as having been driven into banishment previously to his appointment as one of the tyrants. [E.E]

(Χαρικλῆς), an eminent physician. at Rome, who sometimes attended on the Emperor Tiberius, and who is said to have predieted his approaching death from the weak state of his pulse, A. D. 37. (Suet. Tib. 72; Tac. Ann. 6.50.) Some medical formulae are preserved by Galen (De Compos. Mediciam. sec. Locos. 2.1, 2. vol. xii. pp. 556, 579, &c.) which may perhaps belong to the same person. [W.A.G]

(Χαρικλῆς). (1) One of the Thirty Tyrants set over Athens by the Lacedaemonians, and possessing great influence among his colleagues (Xen. Mem. i. 2. 31).

(2) A celebrated physician in the train of Tiberius. Towards the end of that emperor's life, Charicles, on taking leave of him, as if about to journey abroad, managed, in grasping the hand of Tiberius, to feel his pulse, and became instantly convinced that the latter had not more than two days to live, a secret which he divulged to Macro (Tac. Ann. vi. 50).