Demosthenes' Sister
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
my sister · Demosthenes's sister · sister
in the texts
Against Aphobus II
The speaker's sister, betrothed by her father to the guardian Demophon with a dowry, whose marital prospects are threatened by the guardians' fraud.
My sister he gave to Demophon with a dowry of two talents to be paid at once, and betrothed her to him in marriage;
She now thinks that she is to welcome me home after I have won a just verdict from you, and that my sister will not be portionless.
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 sister, whose betrothal and marriage-portion under the father's will are among the disputed items.
that Demophon should at once receive two talents, and should marry my sister when she should come of age (this would be in ten years);
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—we were her only children, and it was for our sakes that she gave herself up to a life of widowhood—that my father when he was about to die had set this man free, and that Milyas was regarded by us as free thereafter.
With regard to the maritime loan, the sofa-makers, and the iron and the ivory that were left me, and my sister’s marriage-portion, at the purloining of which Aphobus connived in order to secure for himself the right to take whatever he pleased of my goods, listen, and see how just was the verdict given against him, and how absurd it would have been to examine Milyas by torture regarding any of these matters.