Menexenus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Boeotus II
Brother of the speaker's mother who helped give her in marriage with a talent dowry.
so it was not fitting that the son of that famous man should wed my mother without a dowry, nor is it likely that Menexenus and Bathyllus, who had large fortunes themselves, and who, after Cleomedon’s death, received back the dowry, defrauded their own sister;
My mother, men of the jury, was the daughter of Polyaratus, of Cholargus, and sister of Menexenus, and Bathyllus and Periander.
Her brothers, Menexenus and.
Trapeziticus
A companion of the plaintiff who helps seek the deposit, is falsely accused by Pasion of bribing Cittus, and independently sues Pasion for libel.
but Menexenus was so enraged because of the charge which Pasion had brought against him also, that he brought an action for libel against him and demanded the surrender of Cittus, asking that Pasion, if guilty of falsification, should suffer the same penalty which he himself would have incurred for the same acts.
when Menexenus lodged his suit against him, which was before the memorandum had been tampered with, Pasion sent Agyrrhius, a friend of both of us, to beg that I either appease Menexenus or annul the agreement I had made with himself.
Yet he is the man who, though he alleged that the slave whom he himself had spirited away had been enslaved by us, yet listed this same person in his property-schedule as a slave along with his other servants, and then when Menexenus demanded that this slave give testimony under torture, Pasion brought about his release on the ground that he was a freeman!