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[sc. A name applied to] those notorious for villainy. He was a foreigner who lived in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes in Amphiareus [says]: "o wretch and Phrynondas and villain you".[1] From him they call villains Phrynondas.
This Phrynondas [was] evil and wicked, someone who for money easily put together scheming plans for bad ends, as Eudemus says.[2]
And elsewhere: "but I think that neither Phrynondas nor Eurybatos nor any other of the villains of old ever behaved as such a trickster and cheat [as Demosthenes]".[3]

*frunw/ndas: tw=n e)pi\ ponhri/a| diabebohme/nwn. o(\s ce/nos w)\n kata\ ta\ *peloponnhsiaka\ die/triben *)aqh/nhsin. *)aristofa/nhs *)amfia/rew|: w)= miare\ kai\ *frunw/nda kai\ ponhre\ su/. e)k tou/tou tou\s ponhrou\s *frunw/ndas kalou=si. kakoh/qhs o( *frunw/ndas ou(=tos kai\ panou=rgos, misqou= tinas mhxana\s pragma/twn e)pi\ kakoi=s r(a|di/ws suntiqei/s, w(/s fhsin *eu)/dhmos. kai\ au)=qis: a)ll' oi)=mai ou)/te *frunw/ndas ou)/t' *eu)ru/batos ou)d' a)/llos pw/pote tw=n pa/lai ponhrw=n, toiou=tos ma/gos kai\ go/hs.

For Phrynondas cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousai 861; Isocrates 18.57; Harpokration s.v.
[1] Aristophanes fr. 26 Kock (and K.-A.).
[2] Presumably Eudemus of (?)Argos [Myth, Place], author of On Words in the Orators.
[3] Aeschines 3.137, cited from Harpok. On Eurybatos, see epsilon 3715, epsilon 3717, epsilon 3718.

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