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.
Phormion, who is here present, answered that they knew him.
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?
and Phormion was ready to swear that in very truth he had himself reckoned up the amount with Lycon in the presence of Archebiades, and that instructions were given him to pay the money to Cephisiades, and that Archebiades had identified Cephisiades for him;
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;