Phormion

Family: Greece · Role: litigant · First appears: Demosthenes

Demosthenes

• rivals with Apollodorus “those against Phormion and Stephanus, in which latter case he was thought to have acted dishonorably, for the speech which Phormion used against Apollodorus was also of his making;”
• rivals with Demosthenes “the speech which Phormion used against Apollodorus was also of his making; he, as it were, having simply furnished two adversaries out of the same shop with weapons to wound one another.”

Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero

• with Demosthenes (Demosthenes privately made an oration for Phormion.) “that he privately made orations for Phormion and Apollodorus, though adversaries in the same cause”
• enemies with Apollodorus (Phormion and Apollodorus were adversaries in the same cause.) “that he privately made orations for Phormion and Apollodorus, though adversaries in the same cause”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.