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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 29 | 29 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Andocides, Speeches | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Appian, The Foreign Wars (ed. Horace White) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40. You can also browse the collection for 425 BC or search for 425 BC in all documents.
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Demosthenes, Against Boeotus 2, section 25 (search)
Besides all this, my mother is shown to have
been first given in marriage to Cleomedon, whose father Cleon, we are told,A striking instance of the Greek preference for
the spoken rather than the written word. commanded troops among whom
were your ancestors, and captured alive a large number of Lacedaemonians in
Pylos,This was in 425 B.C. The account is given in Thuc.
4.3 ff. 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