Aphobus
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 27 anchored passages
the defendant · her husband · my opponent · the guardian · the most impious of men · the plaintiff · this fellow · this man
in the texts
Against Aphobus I
The speaker's former guardian and the defendant in this suit, accused of embezzling a large share of the inherited estate.
But what is it that they do?
These thirty minae, then, he has received from the factory, and the interest on them for eight years;
The defendant and Therippides paid me thirty-one minae, and they compute that they have paid eighteen minae in taxes.
Against Aphobus II
The speaker's former guardian and brother-in-law, now the defendant being sued for embezzling and mismanaging the inherited estate.
Show me this fund.
while this fellow, if you make him master of my goods, will do nothing of the kind.
You have acted jointly as my guardians, but thereafter you scheme each one for himself.
Against Aphobus III
Former guardian of Demosthenes and plaintiff in the present suit, who is accused of embezzling the estate and now suing a witness for false testimony.
But Aphobus knew better than anyone else that the slave had borne true testimony, and therefore he declined the test.
Furthermore, if there were any truth in all this, do you suppose that Aphobus would not have taken my mother to wife, bequeathed to him as she was by my father?
The jury, to whom he then appealed, having heard the case, gave the same decision that his own friends and the arbitrator had given, and fixed the damages at ten talents.
Against Onetor I
Demosthenes's former guardian, held liable in an earlier suit for mismanaging his estate, and husband of Onetor's sister at the center of the disputed divorce.
and, as to Aphobus’s tilling the land, the fact was too plain to be denied, so he confessed it.
In the case of Aphobus, I held that his controversy with me should be settled among our friends, and not come to trial before you, but I could not persuade him.
Nor are these the only proofs which make it easy to see that Aphobus continued to live with his wife and to possess the land up to the time when the suit was begun;
Against Onetor II
The speaker's former guardian, found liable for mismanaging his estate, whose property Onetor's false dowry claims were designed to protect.
Then he seeks now to deceive and beguile you by claiming that he set up the pillars before judgement was given against Aphobus.
Was it not ten full years before he became your brother-in-law that Aphobus took possession of my estate for which judgement has been rendered against him?
Yet observe that this is a proof not only that his wife was living with Aphobus and that Onetor was on intimate terms with him, but also that he had not paid the dowry.