Critobulus
- I A disciple of Socrates, Cic. Sen. 17, 59.—
- II A Grecian physician, Curt. 9, 5, 25; Plin. 7, 57, 37, § 124.
- 1. leerling v. Socrates;
- 2. Gr. arts ttv. Philippus en zijn zoon Alexander de Grote.
(Κριτόβουλος), son of Criton, and a disciple of Socrates. He did not however profit much by his master's instructions, if we may trust the testimony of Aeschines the Socratic (apud Athen. v. p. 220a; comp. Casaub. ad loc.), by whom he is represented as destitute of refinement and sordid in his mode of living. (Comp. Plat. Phaed. p. 57; Xen. Mem. 1.3.8, 2.6; Athen. 5.188d; D. L. 2.121.) [E.E]
(Κριτόβουλος), a citizen of Lampsacus, who appeared at Athens as the representative of Cersobleptes in B. C. 346, when the treaty of peace between Philip and the Athenians was about to be ratified, and claimed to be admitted to take the oath on behalf of the Thracian king as one of the allies of Athens. A decree to this effect was passed by the assembly in spite of a strong opposition, as Aeschines asserts, on the part of Demosthenes. Yet when the treaty was actually ratified before the board of generals, Cersobleptes was excluded from it. Demosthenes and Aeschines accuse one another of thus having nullified the decree; while, according to Philip's account, Critobulus was prevented by the generals from taking the oath. (Aesch. de Fals. Leg. p. 39, Ep. Phil. ad Ath. p. 160; Dem. de Fals. Leg. p. 395; Thirlwall's Greece, vol. v. p. 356.) [E.E]
(Κριτόβουλος), a Greek surgeon, said by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 7.37) to have extracted an arrow from the eye of Philip the son of Amyntas, king of Macedonia, (probably at the siege of Methone, B. C. 353) so skilfully that, though he could not save his sight, he prevented his face from being disfigured. He is also mentioned by Quintus Curtius (9.5) as having been the person who extracted the weapon from the wound which Alexander received in storming the principal fortress of the Mallians, B. C. 326. [Critodemus.] [W.A.G]
- Hdt. 2.181
- made governor of Olynthus by the Persians: Hdt. 8.127
- Paus. 10.20.3