Athenogenes
historical figure · 1 work · 1 mention · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Athenogenes
The defendant, a perfume-shop owner and former speechwriter who sold the speaker a slave, Midas, and his sons while concealing enormous hidden debts attached to the shop.
But Athenogenes will presently tell you that in law whatever agreements one man makes with another are binding.
And yet if that was how she behaved on her own, what do you think her plans are now when she has taken Athenogenes into partnership, who is a speechwriter, a man of affairs and, most significant of all, an Egyptian?
If a man has been vicious in his private life and given up hope of his city’s safety;