Euphemus
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian ambassador who answers Hermocrates at Camarina, defending Athens's right to its empire.
On the arrival therefore at Camarina of Hermocrates and some others from Syracuse, and of Euphemus and others from the Athenians, an assembly of the Camarinaeans having been convened, Hermocrates, wishing to prejudice them beforehand against the Athenians, addressed them as follows:
For we, who are Ionians, considered, with regard to the Peloponnnesians.
"Though we are come hither for the purpose of renewing our former alliance, yet, as the Syracusan orator has attacked us on that head, we must also address you on the subject of our empire, to show that we enjoy it on just grounds.
On the Mysteries
Brother of Callias son of Telocles, approached by Diocleides and named on Diocleides' list.
so seeing Euphemus, the brother of Callias, son of Telocles, sitting in his smithy, he took him to the temple of Hephaestus.
Euphemus.
Against Boeotus II
Father of the woman whom the speaker married.
As for me, he forthwith persuaded me, for I was about eighteen years of age, to marry the daughter of Euphemus, wishing to live to see children born to me.
In Defence of Lycophron
An Athenian figure connected to the woman at the center of the charge; he reportedly provided a dowry of a talent of silver enabling her marriage to Charippus and is linked to a disputed account of a prior husband's death.
or was she growing old unmarried in her home, she who was married at once, as soon as Euphemus supplied a talent of silver as a dowry, obviously with no ulterior motive but simply out of kindness?
But if their interpretation of this story tallied with that given by Ariston in the impeachment, they should not surely have prevented the nearest relatives from ejecting Euphemus.