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.
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?
Euctemon, Glaucippus, Eurymachus, Polyeuctus, Plato, Antidorus, Charippus, Theodorus, Alcisthenes, Menestratus, Eryximachus, Euphiletus, Eurydamas, Pherecles, Meletus, Timanthes, Archidamus, Telenicus.
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.
You have, I think, now heard enough, judges, to convince you that Euphiletus here is our brother and your fellow-citizen, and that he has been unjustly insulted by those who have conspired against him in the deme.
And in addition to the depositions, judges, in the first place, the mother of Euphiletus, who is admitted by our opponents to be a citizen, expressed before the arbitrators her willingness to swear an oath in the sanctuary of Delphinian Apollo that Euphiletus here was the issue of herself and our father;
In addition to this, judges, I was thirteen years old, as I have already said, when he was born, and I am ready to swear that Euphiletus here is my brother by the same father.