Mantitheus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 13 anchored passages
I · me · myself · plaintiff · speaker
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On the Mysteries
A Council member named at the head of Diocleides' list who took sanctuary.
He gave a list of forty-two persons whom he claimed to have recognized, and at the head of the forty-two appeared Mantitheus and Apsephion who were members of the Council and present at that very meeting.
Against Boeotus I
The plaintiff and son of Mantias who claims the rightful use of the name Mantitheus.
You hear then, men of Athens, that I have always been in possession of the name Mantitheus;
they will bring forward the name of Mantitheus, son of Mantias, of Thoricus if they are nominating one for choregus or gymnasiarch or feaster of the tribe or for any other office.
Again, suppose Mantitheus, son of Mantias, of Thoricus should be summoned as judge, what should we do?
Against Boeotus II
The speaker and legitimate son of his father and mother, suing to recover his mother's dowry and resisting Boeotus's name and property claims.
But after this, instead of the name, Boeotus, which my father had given him, as has been proved to you by witnesses, after my father’s death he had his name inscribed on the list of the demesmen as Mantitheus, and being further addressed by the name of the same father and the same deme as I myself, he not only forced a retrial of the case in which I am now suing him, but when you had elected me ta …
And when they had thus been received by me into the house, we proceeded to divide the inheritance;
And Boeotus, men of the jury, though he was here at the time would not contest the suit, but declared that I had not received the arbitrator’s verdict against him, for his name was not Boeotus, but Mantitheus;
Hellenica
An Athenian captured in Caria who escapes from Sardis together with Alcibiades and later serves as an ambassador to the Persian King.
Thirty days later, however, Alcibiades, together with Mantitheus, who had been taken prisoner in Caria, provided themselves with horses and made their escape from Sardis by night to Clazomenae.
The Athenians who were sent were Dorotheus, Philocydes, Theogenes, Euryptolemus, and Mantitheus, and with them two Argives, Cleostratus and Pyrrolochus;