Menippus
Μένιππος
(Μένιππος), historical.
1. One of those who, with Philistides, succeeded, against the opposition of Euphraeus, and by the aid of Philip of Macedon, in making themselves tyrants of Oreus in Euboea. They were driven out by the Athenians under Phocion, in B. C. 341. (Dem. Phil. iii. p. 126, De Cor. pp. 248, 252, &c.; comp. Acsch. c. Ctes. p. 68; Plnt. Demosth. 17; Diod. 16.74.) [CALLIAS, Vol. I. p. 568a; CLEITARCHUS.]
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.