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Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 42, section 10
The wrongs, therefore, which Phaenippus began to do to me beginning with the very first day after the tendering of the exchanges, you have heard, men of Athens, both from myself and from the witnesses; but the things which he did after this have been offences, not against me only, but also against the laws, to the defence of which you are all bound to rally.
361 BC - 360 BC (search for this): speech 46, section 13
This law, then, ordains that we should live as citizens under the same laws and not one under one law, another under another. But my father died during the archonship of Dysnicetus,That is, in 371-370 B.C. and Phormio became an Athenian citizen during the archonship of Nicophemus,That is, in 361-360 B.C. in the tenth year after my father died. How, then, could my father, not knowing that Phormio was to become an Athenian citizen, have given him in marriage his own wife, and thus have outraged us, shown his contempt of the gift of citizenship which he had received from you, and disregarded your laws? And which was the more honorable course for him—to do this during his lifetime, supposing he wished to do it, or to leave behind him at his death a will which he had no legal right to make
371 BC - 370 BC (search for this): speech 46, section 13
This law, then, ordains that we should live as citizens under the same laws and not one under one law, another under another. But my father died during the archonship of Dysnicetus,That is, in 371-370 B.C. and Phormio became an Athenian citizen during the archonship of Nicophemus,That is, in 361-360 B.C. in the tenth year after my father died. How, then, could my father, not knowing that Phormio was to become an Athenian citizen, have given him in marriage his own wife, and thus have outraged us, shown his contempt of the gift of citizenship which he had received from you, and disregarded your laws? And which was the more honorable course for him—to do this during his lifetime, supposing he wished to do it, or to leave behind him at his death a will which he had no legal right to make
538 BC - 537 BC (search for this): speech 47, section 21
When this decree had been passed, the magistrates chose by lot those who owed the ship's equipment to the state and handed over their names, and the overseers of the dockyards passed on the list to the trierarchs who were then about to sail, and to the overseers of the navy-boards. The law of PerianderThis law was passed in 538-537 B.C. forced us and laid command upon us to receive the list of those who owed equipment to the state,—I mean the law in accordance with which the navy-boards were constituted. And besides this another decree of the people compelled them to assign to us the several debtors that we might recover from each man his proportionate amount
372 BC - 371 BC (search for this): speech 49, section 22
In the month MaimacterionMaimacterion corresponds to the latter half of November and the prior half of December. in the archonship of Asteius,The archonship of Asteius falls in 373-372 B.C. Alcetas and Jason came to visit Timotheus to be present at his trial and give him their support, and they arrived at his house in Peiraeus in the HippodameiaThis was an agora built by the architect Hippodamus. when it was already evening. Being at a loss how to entertain them, he sent his body servant Aeschrion to my father and bade him ask for the loan of some bedding and cloaks and two silver bowls and to borrow a mina of silver.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 42, section 24
There is one thing only, men of the jury, in which anyone could show that this man Phaenippus has been ambitious of honor from you: he is an able and ambitious breeder of horses,Only well-to-do persons in Athens owned horses, and only the wealthy possessed stock-farms. being young and rich and vigorous. What is a convincing proof of this? He has given up riding on horseback, has sold his war horse, and in his place has bought himself a chariot—he, at his age!—that he may not have to travel on foot; such is the luxury that fills him. This chariot he has included in his inventory to me, but of the barley and wine and the rest of the farm-produce not a tenth pa
343 BC (search for this): speech 48, section 26
When the jurors had thus decided, the archon PythodotusThe date was 343 B.C. in accordance with the law struck out the claim of the defendant; and when this claim was stricken out I necessarily had to abandon my claim to half the estate. After these steps had been taken, the archon adjudged the estate of Comon to our opponents; for the laws compelled him to do so.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 41, section 3
Polyeuctus was a man of Teithras,Teithras was a deme of the tribe Oeneïs. not unknown, it may well be, to some of you. This Polyeuctus, since he had no male children, adopted Leocrates, the brother of his own wife; but since he had two daughters by the sister of Leocrates, he gave the elder to me in marriage with a portion of forty minae, and the younger to Leocrates.Marriage between uncle and niece was allowed in ancient Athens. A man might even marry his half-sister （See Dem. 57.2）.
1200 AD (search for this): speech 42, section 3
For my part, men of the jury, I should be most happy to see myself enjoying the material prosperity which was mine before, and remaining in the group of the Three Hundred,Each of the ten Athenian tribes reported a list of its wealthiest citizens to the number of 120. The resulting body of 1200 was divided into four groups of 300 each （for the division into symmories, see note on vol. 1. p. 10）, and these groups, being made up of the richest citizens, naturally bore the heaviest burdens, and in times of crisis might be called upon to advance the entire amount of money required. See Boeckh, Publ. Econ., Book 6, chapter 13, and Gilbert, Gk. Const. Ant. pp. 368-374 （English Trans.）. but since, partly through having to share in th
Athens (Greece) (search for this): speech 42, section 3
gaged in mining works, and partly through having met heavy reverses in my private business, I have lost my estate, and now at the last must pay three talents to the state, a talent for each share （for I too was a partner, as I wish I had not been, in the confiscated mine）,The mine had apparently been taken over by the state because of non-payment of the rental, and to recover possession the lessees had to make the payment specified. On the general subject of the mining business in ancient Athens see Dem. 37 with the Introduction and notes. I am compelled to try to substitute in my place a man who is not only richer than I am now, but was richer even before my losses, and who has never borne any state services, nor made any contribution to the sta
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