Demosthenes' Father
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
my father · Demosthenes's father · father · his father · the testator
in the texts
Against Aphobus II
The deceased father of the speaker, whose estate and dying arrangements for guardianship are central to the dispute.
At the same time he gave to Therippides the seventy minae, and betrothed my mother to the defendant with her portion of eighty minae, and placed me on his knees.
For he declared that my grandfather was a debtor to the state, and that for this reason my father would not have the property let, for fear of the risks he would run.
Nay, my sister was to be the wife of Demophon with a dowry of two talents, my mother the wife of this most ruthless of all men with a dowry of eighty minae, and I as my father’s successor was to perform state services as he had done.
Against Aphobus III
Demosthenes's deceased father, whose will and estate are the subject of the guardianship dispute.
all the money which my father left was indeed buried on the day on which it came into the hands of these men;
I instituted suit, men of the jury, against Demophon, Therippides and the plaintiff for breach of trust in their guardianship, for I had been defrauded by them of all my inheritance.
If my father had no confidence in these men it is plain that he would neither have entrusted them with the rest of his property, nor, if he had left this money in the way alleged, would he have told them of it.