A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(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.)