Aphobetus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
our youngest brother
in the texts
On the Embassy
Aeschines' youngest brother, credited with diplomatic and financial service to Athens.
On the False Embassy
Brother of Aeschines, portrayed as a noisy family partisan and unsuitable moral authority.
) We, Aphobetus and Philochares, although you, Philochares, were a painter of alabaster boxes and tambourines, and your brothers ordinary people, junior clerks and the like,—respectable occupations, but hardly suitable for commanding officers,—we, I say, dignified you with embassies, commands as generals, and other high distinctions.
and God forbid that Athens should ever be in such evil case as to require an Aphobetus or an Aeschines to teach young people modesty!
Even if none of the family had committed any crime, you would have no claim on our gratitude, but we should have a large claim on yours;