Euphiletus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
our brother · our fellow-citizen
in the texts
On the Embassy
Father of Aristeides of Cephisia, named in a witness identification.
Please call Aristophanes the Olynthian, and read his testimony, and call those who heard his story and reported it to me—Dercylus, of the deme Hagnus, the son of Autocles, and Aristeides of Cephisia, the son of Euphiletus.
On the Mysteries
The true criminal named by Andocides as suggesting and organizing the mutilation plot.
and the next day I received a visit from Meletus and Euphiletus.
The idea, I said, had been suggested by Euphiletus at a drinking-party;
Or am I to reveal to my countrymen the story told me by the true criminal, Euphiletus?
On Behalf of Euphiletus
The Athenian litigant, said to be the son of Hegesippus, whose expulsion from the citizen rolls of the deme Erchia and subsequent appeal to the court form the subject of the speech.
Next consider, in the first place, what motive our father could have for lying and for having adopted Euphiletus as his son, if he were not really so.
Our father had neither of these motives, for in us he has two legitimate sons, so that he would never have adopted Euphiletus because he lacked an heir.
It is under this law that Euphiletus, having summoned the demesmen of Erchia on the ground that they had unjustly rejected him, instituted the present case.