Milyas
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Aphobus I
A freedman of the family who served as foreman of the sword-factory, blamed by Aphobus for its lack of reported profit.
For my part, I think it likely that the very opposite is the case, supposing that Milyas actually did have charge of the work,—that he made the disbursements, and that Aphobus received the profits, if we may draw any conclusion from the general character and the shamelessness of the man.
and the defendant who had charge of the business at the first for two years shows no profit whatever, but says sometimes that the factory was idle, and sometimes that he was not himself the manager, but that the foreman, Milyas, a freedman of ours, had charge of it, and that I should look for an accounting from him.
Against Aphobus III
A household figure of disputed status—free or slave—whose manumission and testimony Aphobus and Demosthenes contest throughout the case.
Let us suppose that Milyas is being racked upon the wheel, and consider what Aphobus would most wish him to say.
I shall show that Aphobus has not only acknowledged Milyas to be a freeman, but has even proved it by his actions;
That they were present before the arbitrator, Notharchus, when Aphobus admitted that Milyas was a freeman, having been emancipated by the father of Demosthenes.