Pasion
historical figure · 7 works · 7 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Pasion the Megarian · Pasion the banker · my father · the defendant
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Against Aphobus I
An Athenian banker in whose bank the father had deposited twenty-four hundred drachmae.
twenty-four hundred drachmae in the bank of Pasion, six hundred in that of Pylades, sixteen hundred in the hands of Demomeles, son of Demon, and about a talent loaned without interest in sums of two hundred or three hundred drachmae.
Apollodorus Against Callippus
Apollodorus's father, a banker whose handling of Lycon's account and later death frame the litigation.
Be easy in your mind, Pasion, said he;
Immediately after this mischance this man Callippus came to the bank, and asked whether they knew Lycon, the Heracleote.
If you do this, you will have rendered a decision both just and in accordance with the laws, and moreover one that is worthy of yourselves and of my father;
Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
Father of Apollodorus, invoked as part of the speaker's civic identity.
When it came to fixing the penalty, the jurymen wished to impose a sentence of death upon him, but I begged them to do nothing like that on a prosecution brought by me, and I agreed to the fine of a talent which these men themselves proposed,—not that I wished to save Arethusius from the death penalty (for he deserved death on account of the wrongs which he had committed against me), but that I, P …
Apollodorus Against Polycles
Apollodorus' father, whose reputation enables borrowing.
for on account of my being Pasion’s son, and the fact that he was connected by ties of hospitality with many, and was trusted throughout the Greek world, I had no difficulty in borrowing money wherever I needed it.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Father of Apollodorus; a banker granted Athenian citizenship by decree of the people for his services to the state.
When the people of Athens passed a decree granting the right of citizenship to Pasion and his descendants on account of services to the state, my father favored the granting of the people’s gift, and himself gave in marriage to Apollodorus, son of Pasion, his own daughter, my sister, and she is the mother of the children of Apollodorus.
Trapeziticus
The Athenian banker being sued for denying and defrauding the plaintiff of a large sum of deposited money.
it was on the strength of these calculations that Pasion decided to defraud me of my money.
For it was discovered to have been written in the memorandum that Pasion was released of all claims on my part!
At that time, men of the jury, I thought that Pasion was giving me all this advice because of goodwill toward me;
Anabasis
Megarian commander in Cyrus' army who later deserts.
Xenias and Pasion have deserted us.
and Pasion the Megarian arrived with three hundred hoplites and three hundred peltasts.
and Xenias the Arcadian and Pasion the Megarian embarked upon a ship, put on board their most valuable effects, and sailed away;