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Besides all this, my mother is shown to have
been first given in marriage to Cleomedon, whose father Cleon, we are told,1 commanded troops among whom
were your ancestors, and captured alive a large number of Lacedaemonians in
Pylos,2 and won greater renown than any other man in the
state; so it was not fitting that the son of that famous man should wed my
mother without a dowry, nor is it likely that Menexenus and Bathyllus, who had
large fortunes themselves, and who, after Cleomedon's death, received back the
dowry, defrauded their own sister; rather, they would themselves have added to
her portion, when they gave her in marriage to my father, as they themselves and
the others have testified before you.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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