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There is one
proof which I omitted in my former speech, quite as important as any of those
which were brought forward, to prove that these men did not pay the
marriage-portion to Aphobus. This I shall speak of first, and shall then
undertake to refute the falsehoods which the defendant has uttered before you.
For the fellow, men of the jury, when he first determined to lay claim to the
property of Aphobus, declared that he had paid as the marriage-portion, not a
talent, as he now alleges, but eighty minae; and he set up pillars1 on the house for two thousand drachmae, and on the land
for a talent, wishing to preserve both the one and the other for Aphobus.
1 To signify that the property was mortgaged.
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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