Deinias
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Deinias, son of Theomnestus · my father-in-law
in the texts
Against Stephanus I
Father of Apollodorus' wife and a witness who denies knowledge of any release to Phormio.
Deinias, son of Theomnestus, of Athmonon, deposes that he gave his daughter to Apollodorus to live with him as his wife according to the laws, and that he was never present when Apollodorus released Phormio from all claims, nor was ever aware that he had done so.
) However, to prove that I am telling the truth in this, take the deposition of Deinias and read it;
Deinias, men of the jury, is very like Stephanus, is he not?
Apollodorus Against Polycles
Apollodorus' father-in-law, who joins in warning Polycles to take over the ship.
For Euctemon, the pentecontarch, after he was sent home from the Hellespont on account of his sickness, when he reached port and heard that Polycles had been appointed to relieve me, knowing that the term of my trierarchy had expired and that I was now serving over time, took with him my father-in-law, Deinias, and coming up to Polycles in the sample market, bade him set sail and take over the shi …
Well, when he paid no heed to what he heard from Euctemon and Deinias, later on Pythodorus of Acharnae, and Apollodorus of Leuconoë, friends and connections of mine, again approached him, and urged him to go and take over the ship, as he had been designated as my successor;
When the defendant heard these words from Euctemon and Deinias my father-in-law, he made no answer to them regarding the matters of which they spoke but, they said, he broke into a laugh, and said, The mouse has just tasted pitch;
For Phormio
Arbitrator connected by marriage to Apollodorus.
You hear the award, men of the jury, which was rendered by Deinias, whose daughter the plaintiff has married, and Nicias, who is husband to her sister.
On The Estate of Cleonymus
Brother of the nephews' father and their guardian after they were orphaned. His estrangement from Cleonymus is presented as the true cause of the disputed will; he died before Cleonymus.
not because he had any complaint against us, as he subsequently stated, but because he saw that we were under the guardianship of Deinias, and was afraid that he might himself die while we were minors, and that Deinias might obtain control of the property, if it became ours;
For after Deinias's death, when things were going badly with us, he would not allow us to lack anything, but took us into his own house and brought us up, and saved our property when our creditors were scheming against it, and looked after our interests as though they were his own.
We were orphans, and our uncle Deinias, our father's brother, assumed the guardianship of us.