He was one of those sympathetic to Macedon.
*kerki/das: ei(=s h)=n tw=n ta\ *makedonika\ fronou/ntwn.
In the list of such people given by
Demosthenes 18.295. The actual glossing phrase here derives (as we can see from the intermediate source, Harpokration s.v.) from
Theopompus FGrH 115 F119.
Kerkidas was an Arkadian, from
Megalopolis, and, together with the rest of those whom
Demosthenes castigates as traitors to Greece, was later defended by his pragmatic fellow-citizen
Polybios (18.14).
On his more celebrated descendant and namesake,
Cercidas the C3 lawgiver and poet, see OCD(4) s.v.
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