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                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="menesaechmus-bio-1" n="menesaechmus_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Menesaechmus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Μενέσαιχμος</surname></persName>), an Athenian, an
      inveterate enemy of the orator Lycurgus, by whom he was impeached on a charge of impiety and
      convicted. When Lycurgus felt his end drawing near, he had himself brought into the council to
      give an account of his public conduct, and Menesaechmus was the only man who ventured to find
      fault with it. He continued his hostility to the sons of Lycurgus after their father's death,
      and so far succeeded in a prosecution against them, that they were delivered into the custody
      of the Eleven. They were released, however, on the remonstrance of Demosthenes. (Pseudo-Plut.
       <hi rend="ital">Vit. X. Orat. Lycurg.;</hi> Phot. <hi rend="ital">Bibl.</hi> Cod. 268; Suid.
       <hi rend="ital">s. vv.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">Αυκον͂ργος, προηροσίαι</foreign>; Harpocr. <hi rend="ital">s.
       vv.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">Ἀρκύωρος, Δηλιαστααί</foreign>
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