Demaretus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Prominent citizen executed by the men holding power after the Thirty's deposal
The men in the government being indignant at this, and fearing lest they should be deposed from power, and wishing to terrify the rest—which they did—they seized Demaretus, a man second to none of the citizens, and put him to death, and held affairs firmly, with Callibius and the Peloponnesians present helping them, and besides them some of the cavalry;
Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes
The guardian left by the speaker’s father, accused in the complaint but said never to have gone to Bosporus or collected the debt.
However, to prove that I am speaking the truth,—that our father died immediately after the settlement, that these men never brought suit against Demaretus for this money, and that he absolutely never went to sea, nor visited Bosporus, take the depositions.
and that Demaretus, whom our father left as our guardian, could not have received them either (for they have written his name also in their complaint), this, too, I shall show.
They have written in the complaint which they are now prosecuting, that we owe the money, inasmuch as our father received it in payment, and passed it over to them as a debt due and payable in his account of his guardianship.