Demosthenes' Mother
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 7 anchored passages
my mother · Demosthenes's mother · mother
in the texts
Against Aphobus II
The speaker's mother, betrothed by her dying husband to the guardian Aphobus along with a dowry, later left in distress by Aphobus's misconduct.
do not allow my mother, my sister and myself to suffer undeserved misfortunes.
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.
So may heaven give you joy of them, do not look upon me with indifference nor cause my mother, deprived of the hopes in life that are left her, to suffer a lot unworthy of her.
Against Aphobus III
Demosthenes's mother, whose marriage-portion and proposed oath are central pieces of evidence against Aphobus.
Nor would he have entrusted this remainder to my mother to keep and then have pledged her herself in marriage to this man, who was one of the guardians.
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?
Besides this, my mother was ready to call to her side my sister and myself, and swear with imprecations on our heads, if she spoke falsely, that Aphobus had received her marriage-portion according to the terms of my father’s will.