Charmides
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Charmidai Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular of Charmides
- a comic person in Plaut. Trin.; hence, charmĭdātus, changed into Charmides, id. ib. 4, 2, 135 (977); cf. decharmido.
(Χαρμίδης).
1. An Athenian, son of Glaucon, was cousin to Critias and uncle by the mother's side to Plato, who introduces him in the dialogue which bears his name as a very young man at the commencement of the Peloponnesian war. (Comp. Heind. ad Plat. Charm. p. 154, and the authorities there referred to.) In the same dialogue he is represented as a very amiable youth and of surpassing beauty, and he appears again in the " Protagoras" at the house of Callias, son of Hipponicus. [See p. 567b.] We learn from Xenophon, that he was a great favourite with Socrates, and was possessed of more than ordinary ability, though his excessive diffidence deprived his country of the services which he might have rendered her as a statesman. In B. C. 404 he was one of the Ten who were appointed, over and above the thirty tyrants, to the special government of the Peiraeeus, and he was slain fighting against Thrasybulus at the battle of Munychia in the same year. (Xen. Mem. 3.6, 7, Hell. 2.4.19 ; Schneid. ad loc.)
2. Called also Charmadas by Cicero, a disciple of Cleitomachus the Carthaginian, and a friend and companion (as he had been the fellow-pupil) of Philo of Larissa, in conjunction with whom he is said by some to have been the founder of a fourth Academy. He flourished, therefore, towards the end of the second and at the commencement of the first century B. C. Cicero, writing in B. C. 45, speaks of him as recently dead. (Tusc. Disp. 1.24.) On the same authority we learn, that he was remarkable for his eloquence and for the great compass and retentiveness of his memory. His philosophical opinions were doubtless coincident with those of Philo. (Cic. Acad. Quaest. 4.6, Orat. 16, de Orat. 2.88; Plin. Nat. 7.24; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 167, and the authorities there referred to.) [E.E]
(Χαρμίδης). A son of Glaucon, cousin of Critias , and maternal uncle to Plato. He gives his name to one of the Platonic dialogues, in which he is represented as a youth at the opening of the Peloponnesian War.
- Olympic victor: Paus. 6.7.1
- Paus. 5.10.2