Polyeuctus

(Πολύευκτος).

1. An Athenian orator, delivered the speech against Socrates at his trial, which, however, was composed by some one else (D. L. 2.38). Antiphon wrote a speech against this Polyeuctus. (Bekker, Anecd. Gr. vol. i. p. 82.)

2. An Athenian orator of the demus Sphettus, was a political friend of Demosthenes, with whom he worked in resisting the Macedonian party and in urging the people to make war against Philip. Hence we find him accused along with Demosthenes of receiving bribes from Harpalus (Dinarch. c. Dem. p. 129). Polyeuctus was very corpulent, at which his adversary Phocion made himself merry (Plut. Phoc. 9), and his love of luxury was attacked by the comic poet Anaxandrides (Athen. 4.166,d.). The orations of Polyeuctus are referred to by Aristotle (Aristot. Rh. 3.10.7) and Diogenes Laertius (6.23); and a fragment of his oration against Demades is preserved by Apsines (Rhet. p. 708, ed. Ald.). For further particulars see Dem. Philipp. iii. p. 129; Plut. Dem. 10, Phoc. 5, Vitae X. Orat. pp. 841, e., 844, f., 846, c., Polit. Praec. p. 803e.; and along modern writers, Ruhnken, Hist. Critica Orat. Graec. pp. 80, 81; Westermann, Gesch. d. Griech. Beredtsamkeit, § 53, n. 5, 6.

(Πολύευκτος), an Athenian statuary, who made the statue of Demosthenes which the Athenians set up in the Agora, after the orator's death. (Pseudo-Plut. Vit. X. Orat. p. 847a.) [P.S]

(Πολύευκτος). An Athenian orator of the deme Sphettus. He was a political friend of Demosthenes, with whom he worked in resisting the Macedonian party (Plut. Dem. 10).