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	Context: Dem. 48 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Callistratus, upon the death of his relative Comon (the family relationship is not specified), agreed with Olympiodorus to split the estate in half, each man keeping an equal share.
		According to their agreement, when it was discovered that some of the money was missing, Callistratus and Olympiodorus agreed to put the slave Moschion to torture, but he voluntarily admitted to the theft of 1000 drachmas.
		Olympiodorus and Callistratus went to court and lost the judgement and, consequently, the estate of Comon was awarded to other claimants.
	www.stoa.org /projects/demos/work_Dem._48 (470 words)

	Callistratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Callistratus of Aphidna (Greek: Καλλιστράτος Kallistratos) was a friend of Callicrates, a political person and an Athenian orator of the 4th century BC, a strategos in 378 and was executed in 355.
		In 366 after the capture of Oropos of the tyrant of Eretria Thémison, he was accused of treason but he escaped the condemnation.
		After the new failures in Athens, Callistratus fled for Macedonia and he was condemned that he died by contumancy in 361.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Callistratus.htm (307 words)

	CALLISTRATUS - LoveToKnow Article on CALLISTRATUS
		Callistratus chiefly devoted himself to the elucidation of the Greek poets; a few fragments of his commentaries have been preserved in the various collections of scholia and in Athenaeus.
		He was also the author of a miscellaneous work called ~UuuLKT~, used by the later lexicographers, and of a treatise on courtesans (Athenaeus iii.
		He is not to be confused with Callistratus, the pupil and successor of Isocrates and author of a history of Heraclea in Pontus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CALLISTRATUS.htm (137 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 579 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Fabricius also supposes the Callistratus of the Basilica to have been different from the Callistratus of the Digest.
		Sua-rez naturally expresses strong doubts as to the existence of a later Callistratus ; for there are many other asserted duplicate names, as Modestinus, Theophilus, Thalelaeus, Stephanus, Dorotheus, Cyrillus, Theodoras, Isidorus ; but Reiz has shewn, in several instances, that the asserted later commentator, bearing the name of a prior jurist, is a fictitious entity.
		The determination of the question as to the existence of a duplicate Callistratus may be helped by the following list of the passages in the Basilica (ed.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0588.html (769 words)

	Armenian Passion of St. Callistratus (BHO 185)
		But those who avowed their faith in Almighty God, and in His word, and in the Holy Spirit, were subjected to interrogatories, and to torture, and so received the speedy crown and the honour of the glory; but, humanly speaking, their flesh was consumed with evil and cruel tortures.
		In that time, first and alone, the brave athlete of Christ, whose name was Callistratus, in the city of Rome, took unto himself the crown of victory; and in solemn and sturdy combat he raised the standard of victory for them who had believed in the Lord.
		Presentinus said: "Here, O Callistratus, there is no need for rhetoric, but we have to talk about obedience; wherefore comply and sacrifice, that thou mayst not compel me to destroy thee in a cruel manner.
	www.ucc.ie /milmart/BHO185.html (7483 words)

	Harvard University Press/Philostratus the Elder, Philostratus the Younger, Callistratus, Philostratus the Elder, ...
		They are attributed to two men each known as Philostratus and to a third man called Callistratus, otherwise unknown.
		The 14 'Ekphraseis' attributed to Callistratus are descriptions of statues in stone or bronze, written probably in the fourth century AD.
		It is not known to what extent the descriptions are of real works of art, but they show how artists treated their subjects, and are written with some artistic knowledge.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L256.html (172 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		An ancestor of Saint Callistratus, Neoscorus, has served under the emperor Tiberius in Palestine, under the command of the procurator of Judea Pontius Pilate, and was a witness to the suffering on the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, His martyr's death and glorious Resurrection.
		One time a soldier sleeping nearby him heard Saint Callistratus invoking the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he reported this to the military commander, who in turn summoned Callistratus, interrogated him and wanted to make him offer sacrifice to idols.
		Over them were beautiful bright crowns, and all heard a voice: "Be brave, Callistratus, with thine company, and come rest in the eternal habitations." At the same time with this, the earth shuddered and an idol standing not far off fell down and smashed.
	www.missionstclare.com /english/people/sep27o.html (1657 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 577 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		413, Callistratus forced his way through the enemy and led his men safe to Catana.
		Lysimachus having massacred some countrymen,.with whom he fell in as they were going from the Peiraeeus to their farms to procure provisions, the party in the harbour, having got Callistratus into their hands, retaliated by putting him to death, b.
		375, confounding the peace of 371 with that of 374, and placing the latter a year too soon.) Again, in 369, the year of the invasion of Laconia by Epaminondas, Callistratus induced the Athenians to grant the aid which the Spartans had sent to ask.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0586.html (960 words)

	Blood of the Vampire
		Callistratus needs an assistant, and it is for that reason that he arranged to have Pierre moved to his asylum.
		What Callistratus wants from Pierre is his help in isolating and cataloging all of the different human blood groups, with the ultimate aim of using this knowledge to treat an extremely rare— but also extremely deadly— condition of the blood.
		No sooner has she heard of her fiance’s demise than she arranges to take a job as Callistratus’ domestic; from her new vantage point within the asylum, she should have no trouble getting to the bottom of everything.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsa-d/bloodofthevampire.htm (1571 words)

	Wreakin' Havoc - Undergraduate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Loosely translated: Callistratus doesn’t simply praise the worthy, but he praises all.
		Such an environment, where the choice between honesty and deceit is predicated on situational norms rather than on a code of virtue, undermines our very ability to coexist mutual, beneficially, and peacefully.
		Callistratus probably would have fit right in among the darksuit-clad Whartonites scrambling for jobs today.
	www.whartonjournal.com /news/2001/02/26/Undergraduate/Wreakin.Havoc-36889.shtml (1241 words)

	Algirdas Brazauskas explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		itself again, Lamprias would have spoken to and severely chid the Callistratus gave him a hint, and drew him on by this discourse:-- For my part, I absolve all lovers of shows and music from says that those pleasures alone deserve the approbation "fine." For when we have been splendidly entertained.
		Upon this discourse of Callistratus, my father Lamprias, seeing the my opinion, the ancients were much out when they named Bacchus the for it seems he hath made you forget that of those faults which are inclination, and others from heedlessness or ignorance.
		Where the reason, and forces men to sin; but where the just reward of ignorance of the danger and heedlessness make men easily wrought eating, drinking, or venery, which diseases, wasting of estates, For instance, Theodectes, who having sore eyes, when his mistress Yet love of pleasure drove him back again.
	www.wordspider.net /al/algirdas-brazauskas.html (620 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		So, in time, St Callistratus was born, baptised and brought up a Christian.
		One of his companions, seeing holy Callistratus get up at night and pray to God, reported him to the commander, Persentinus, as a Christian - and Persentinus was a harsh torturer of Christians.
		When he was convinced that Callistratus was indeed a Christian, the commander ordered him to offer sacrifice to idols, which Callistratus immediately refused to do.
	www.pomog.org /prologue/October/10.htm (474 words)

	Book I - Chapter 14 : Aristotle's Rhetoric
		The worse of two acts of wrong done to others is that which is prompted by the worse disposition.
		Hence the most trifling acts may be the worst ones; as when Callistratus charged Melanopus with having cheated the temple-builders of three consecrated half-obols.
		This is because the greater is here potentially contained in the less: there is no crime that a man who has stolen three consecrated half-obols would shrink from committing.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~honeyl/Rhetoric/rhet1-14.html (220 words)

	AllRefer.com - Callistratus (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Callistratus (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Believing Thebes to be more dangerous to Athens than Sparta, he favored a peace with Sparta.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Callistr.html (195 words)

	Brief Lives of Ssaints - 27 September / 10 October (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		One of his companions, seeing holy Callistratus get up at night and pray to God, reported him to the commander, Persentinus, as a Christian —and Persentinus was a harsh torturer of Christians.
		Then Callistratus was harshly beaten and thrown into the sea, but God's power preserved him, and he emerged from the sea unharmed.
		Seeing Callistratus's endurance and his miracles, forty-nine soldiers came to believe in Christ the Lord, and they were beaten and thrown into prison along with him.
	www.stjohnthebaptist.org.au /saints/0-26.html (388 words)

	AllRefer.com - B.C. , Athenian leader (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		B.C., Athenian leader, one of the generals of the Peloponnesian War.
		In his old age Callias was one of the ambassadors sent to Sparta with Callistratus to negotiate a peace treaty in 371
		B.C. The treaty was ineffective, and friction between Epaminondas of Thebes and Agesilaus II of Sparta became acute.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Callias370.html (192 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Blood of the Vampire : Plot
		Though we see Callistratus being dispatched in traditional stake-through-the-heart fashion during the opening credits, it isn't long before he returns to life, this time in the guise of a prison warden.
		Using his criminally insane charges as his guinea pigs, Callistratus drains their bodies of blood in order to stay alive.
		In the film's incredibly busy climax, Callistratus is prevented from carving up the toothsome Madeleine (Barbara Shelley) by his hunchbacked assistant Carl (Victor Maddern).
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/3756/plot.jhtml (220 words)

	The Acharnians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Written and performed during the Peloponnesian War, it is famous for its anti-war stance.
		Produced in 425 BC by Callistratus, it won Aristophanes a first prize at the Lenaea.
		Aristophanes wrote his comic satire The Acharnians in c.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Acharnians (450 words)

	Blood of the Vampire [1958] @ EOFFTV
		Dr Callistratus runs an asylum from his creepy old castle.
		A young doctor, John Pierre, is wrongfully imprisoned there and discovers that Callistratus has already survived being staked by superstitious villagers thanks to his research into blood types.
		Now in need of regular blood transfusions, Callistratus is using his prisoners and the young local women as a living blood bank as, with Pierre's reluctant help, he obsessively searches for a lasting cure for his condition.
	www.eofftv.com /b/blo/blood_of_the_vampire_main.htm (262 words)

	The Twenty-Seventh Day of the Month of September (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Strengthened by the Holy Spirit thou wast glorious in contest/ and didst cast down the enemy, O Martyr Callistratus./ And thou dost offer a noble army of athletes/ as incense to Christ./ With them pray for us who praise thee with hymns.
		Light of the West, inspirer of monastics and boast of ascetics,/ thy radiant life was pleasing to God, O Father Barrog./ Do not reject us in our pitiable state but pray, O Saint,/ that repenting and weeping we may be found worthy of a place in Christ's holy Kingdom.
		Like stars you have shone upon the world/ and shed the light of contests and miracles on all who cry to you:/ Rejoice Callistratus with your company of fellow Martyrs.
	cs-people.bu.edu /butta1/menologia/040927.html (584 words)

	CALLISTRATUS - Online Information article about CALLISTRATUS
		CALLISTRATUS of Aphidnae, Athenian orator and See also:
		advice they had been allowed to occupy temporarily, Callistratus, despite his magnificent See also:
		Demosthenes that he resolved to study See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CALLISTRATUS.html (164 words)

	Institute for the Classical Tradition \| Boston University
		Ismene Lada-Richards, “‘Mobile Statuary’: Refractions of Pantomime Dancing from Callistratus to Andrew Ducrow” IJCT 10 (2003-2004), pp.
		In this article I look at the European legacy of Graeco-Roman pantomime dancing through the prism of statuary.
		What they share with ancient pantomime is the art of building character and passion through mute corporeal eloquence as well as the thrilling experience of bridging the statuesqueness of the plastic arts and the unfolding narrative of the dramatic stage, a blend which was a distinctive feature of ancient pantomime dancing.
	www.bu.edu /ict/ijct/search/10/1/lada-richards.html (86 words)

	Schola Great Books 2 Class Forum
		After hearing Callistratus defending Rorpus in court, Demosthenes became very impressed with how Callistratus was esteemed by the multitudes.
		Because of the influence Callistratus had on him, Demosthenes put aside all other learning to devote himself solely to becomeming an orator.
		The second example was of a solder in Iraq who threw himself on a hand grenade so the lives of his fellow solders would be saved.
	www.network54.com /Forum/post?forumid=108878&messageid=1102564083 (863 words)

	Blood of the Vampire (1958) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Plot Summary: A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant...
		All in all, Blood Of The Vampire emerges as an enduringly bad horror film that is given some weight by the cast who play it sensibly straight.
		Wolfit is good as Callistratus and look out for Barbara Shelley who was to become one of Hammer's major female heroines throughout the sixties.
	uk.imdb.com /Title?0051422 (355 words)

	Demosthenes, from Lives of the Ten Orators, at Peitho's Web
		Hegesias the Magnesian writes, that he entreated his master's leave to go to hear Callistratus the son of Empaedus, an Amphidnean, a noble orator, and sometime commander of a troop of horse, who had dedicated an altar to Mercury Agoraeos, and was to make an oration to the people.
		But Callistratus being soon banished to Thrace, and Demosthenes arrived at some years of maturity, he joined with Isocrates and Plato.
		After this, he took Isaeus into his house, and for the space of four years labored very hard in imitation of his orations.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/plu10or/pludemos.htm (2358 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philippi
		Crenides and the country lying inland fell into the hands of the Thracians, who doubtless were its original inhabitants.
		the Thasians, aided by Callistratus the Athenian and other exiles, re-established the town of Datos, just when the discovery of auriferous deposits was exciting the neighbouring peoples.
		Philip of Macedonia took possession of it, and gave it his name, Philippi in the plural, as there were different sections of the town scattered at the foot of Mount Pangæus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12007c.htm (558 words)

	Prolog: September 27
		So it was that in time Callistratus was born, baptized and raised a Christian.
		One of his companions, seeing how St. Callistratus arose at night and prayed to God, reported him as a Christian to the commander, Persentinian.
		In order to confirm that Callistratus was indeed a Christian, the commander ordered him to offer sacrifice to the idols, which Callistratus straightway refused to do.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?day=27&month=September (1308 words)

	Plutarch: Lives of the Ten Orators (2)
		Hegesias of Magnesia writes, that he entreated his master's leave to go to hear Callistratus of Aphidna, the son of Empaedus, a noble orator, and sometime commander of a troop of horse, who had dedicated an altar to Hermes Agoraeos, and was to make an oration to the people.
		But Callistratus was soon banished to Thrace, and when Demosthenes arrived at maturity, he joined with Isocrates and Platon.
		After this, he took Isaeus into his house, and for the space of four years laboured very hard in imitation of his orations.
	www.attalus.org /old/orators2.html (4458 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Isaura
		Epitaphs have been found of three bishops, Theophilus, Sisamoas, and Mamas, who lived between the years 250 and 400.
		Three other bishops are also known, Hilary, 381; Callistratus, somewhat later; Aetius, 451 Lequien, "Oriens christ.", I, 1085).
		The last named bishop bears the title of Isauropolis, the name of a city which also figures in the "Hieroclis Synecdemus" (ed.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08184a.htm (403 words)

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