Heracleides
17. Of Aenus in Thrace, joined with his brother Python in the assassination of Cotys, king of Thrace, B. C. 358, for which piece of good service, though prompted by private revenge, they were rewarded by the Athenians with the right of citizenship, and with crowns of gold. (Dem. c. Aristocr. p. 659, ed. Reiske; Arist. Pol. 5.10 ) According to Plutarch (ad v. Coloten. 32), they had both been disciples of Plato.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.