HEGESIPPUS, Athenian orator and statesman, nicknamed Kpeo0vXos ("knot"), probably from the way in which he wore his hair. He lived in the time of Demosthenes, whose anti-Mace donian policy he supported. In 343 B.C. he was one of the am bassadors sent to Philip to discuss the restoration of the island of Halonnesus. Soon afterwards Philip wrote to Athens, offering to resign the island or to submit to arbitration the question of owner ship. In reply to this letter the oration De Halonneso was de livered, which, although included among the speeches of Demos thenes, is generally considered to be by Hegesippus. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch, however, favour the authorship of Demosthenes.
See Demosthenes, De falsa legatione 364, 447, De corona 25o, Philippica iii. 129; Plutarch, Demosthenes 17, Apophthegmata, 187D; Dionysius Halic, ad. Ammaeum, i.; see also Grote, History of Greece, ch. go.