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Demosthenes, Against Spudias, section 3 (search)
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）.
Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus, section 3 (search)
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
Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus, section 10 (search)
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.
Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus, section 24 (search)
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