Phormion
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the banker Phormion
spoken of as
1 expressionPhormion the banker1 mention
On the Embassy (Greek)
You wrote a speech for the banker Phormion and were paid for it:
in the texts
On the Embassy
Banker for whom Demosthenes allegedly wrote a court speech and then betrayed its contents.
You wrote a speech for the banker Phormion and were paid for it:
Apollodorus Against Callippus
A bank associate present in court, involved in showing the account books and paying Cephisiades.
On hearing this, men of the jury, Phormion immediately showed him the books, and, when he had done so, and Callippus (it was he himself, and not another) had read them, and had seen in them the entry, Lycon, the Heracleote, sixteen hundred and forty drachmae, to be paid to Cephisiades;
After this Cephisiades, having returned to Athens, came to the bank and demanded the money, and in the presence of Archebiades and Phrasias, men of the jury, the persons whom Lycon had introduced to my father, and had hidden to identify Cephisiades, when he should return and in the presence of other witnesses also, Phormion, who is here in court, counted out and paid him the sixteen minae forty drachmae.
And again, can anyone persuade you that Archebiades would perjure himself in order that Cephisiades, a resident alien, might get the money, or Phormion either, a man whom Callippus charges with having expunged some records of deposit?
Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
A person involved in a separate quarrel that left Apollodorus short of funds.
but, since I was not well provided with funds in consequence of my quarrel with Phormion and of his depriving me of the estate which my father left me, I took to Theocles, who at that time was carrying on a banking business, some cups and a chaplet of gold, which I happened to have in my house as a part of my ancestral inheritance, and bade him give Nicostratus a thousand drachmae;