[2]
If the defendant declared himself the
son of another father and not of my own, I should naturally have seemed
meddlesome in caring by what name he chose to call himself; but, as it is, he
brought suit against my father, and having got up a gang of blackmailers1 to support
him—Mnesicles, whom you all probably know, and that Menecles who
secured the conviction of Ninus,2 and others of the same sort—he went into court,
alleging that he was my father's son by the daughter of Pamphilus, and that he
was being outrageously treated, and robbed of his civic rights.
1 This strong phrase occurs also in Dem. 40.9.
2 Ninus was a priestess who was put to death, as the scholiast on Dem. 19.281 tells us, for supplying love-potions to young men. The case seems to have been a notorious one, and reflected little credit on Menecles.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.