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Updated: June 4, 2025

The story is well known in Ionia. This Agathocles was a native of Samos, and lived not many years ago. Though his conduct showed him to be the best of friends, he was of no better family and in no better circumstances than the generality of the Samians. From boyhood he had been the friend of Dinias, the son of Lyson, an Ephesian.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

In the course of time, Dinias and Aristoteles the logician killed Abantidas, who used to be present in the marketplace at their discussions, and to make one in them; till they, taking the occasion, insensibly accustomed him to the practice, and so had opportunity to contrive and execute a plot against him.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

For some time Agathocles little as he cared for such a life played his convivial part with the rest, Dinias making no distinction between him and the parasites.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

No sooner was this the case, than Chariclea abandoned Dinias, and went off in pursuit of a certain golden youth of Crete, irresistible as he, and not less gullible. He swallowed his first feelings of embarrassment, and made a clean breast of it all: his love, his ruin, his mistress's disdain, his Cretan rival; and ended by protesting that without Chariclea he could not live.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Dinias had no sooner received the money, than it became evident that he had somehow recovered his good looks, in the opinion of Chariclea: once more the maid-servant and the notes, with reproaches for his long neglect; once more, too, the throng of parasites; they saw that there were still pickings to be had.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

The domestics stood by, dumb with amazement and terror; and when at length they attempted to seize him, he rushed at them with the sword, put them to flight, and slipped away from the fatal scene. The rest of that night he and Agathocles spent at the latter's house, pondering on the deed and its probable consequences. The news soon spread, and in the morning officers came to arrest Dinias.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

Dinias arrived at her house, by agreement, at about bedtime, and was already inside, when Demonax whether he had an understanding with his wife in the matter, as some say, or had got his information independently sprang out from concealment, gave orders to his servants to make the door fast and to secure Dinias, and then drew his sword, breathing fire and flagellation against the paramour.

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