Mantitheus
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 14 anchored passages
I · me · myself · plaintiff · speaker · the aggrieved person
in the texts
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.
I know that, at least so far as I am concerned;
You hear then, men of Athens, that I have always been in possession of the name Mantitheus;
and we shall be cheated of the fair and equal right, that the one chosen by lot shall hold office.
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.
And when they had thus been received by me into the house, we proceeded to divide the inheritance;
Her father gave her in marriage to Cleomedon, son of Cleon, adding a talent as her marriage-portion;
After this these men brought action against me to establish their claims, and I sued them for the marriage-portion.
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The party who initiates a legal dispute, whose statement (the plaint) is procedurally defined and regulated.
13 The Order of Speaking for the Plaintiff and Defendant <!
Then, when the defendant has appeared, the plaintiff should frame the plaint:
At the proper time, he should ask the plaintiff, who stands bowing before him:
Hellenica
An Athenian captured in Caria who escapes from Sardis together with Alcibiades and later serves as an ambassador to the Persian King.
The Athenians who were sent were Dorotheus, Philocydes, Theogenes, Euryptolemus, and Mantitheus, and with them two Argives, Cleostratus and Pyrrolochus;
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.