speaker's father

) Call, please, Philippides of Paeania to whom this fellow Theocrines made this statement, and the others who know that he made it.

and they fined my father ten talents as being in the scheme with Polyeuctus, and gave credence to Theocrines as having come to the boy’s defence.

If now my father had been well-to-do, men of the jury, and able to provide a thousand drachmae, he would have got off entirely free from the indictment for illegality;

For our father left us an estate great in reputation, but in real value small and far less than others';

on the one hand, the honours of my father, with which you honoured him as a good man who, all the time he lived, justly presided over this city;

For my grandfather, together with my mother, obtained from the emperor of that time, who was his friend, at one and the same time the Roman citizenship and yours;

My father, then, having thus married my mother, maintained her as his wife in his own house;

No, for all the rest of the time they lived as not being sons of my father, as most of you know;

and now, as I learn, he will accuse not only me, but my father as well, alleging that my father wronged him in many ways in order to show favor to me.

for she had been set free by my father, and she lived in a separate house, and had taken a husband.

But I will show that I have expended large sums—I, who inherited that slender estate from my father.

Yet my father left to each of us, my brother and myself, an estate of forty-five minae merely, on which it is not easy to live, while your fathers were possessed of such wealth that each of them set up a tripod in honor of choregic victories at the Dionysia.

And, then, did you speak evil of me, and inquire what manner of man my father was?

I bid adieu to this fellow and appeal to those to whom my father left me as my helpers and friends—to you, men of the jury.

But since my father into whose possession he came, was a banker and taught him letters and instructed him in his business and put him in control of large sums of money, he has become wealthy, having found the good luck which brought him into our family the foundation of all his present wealth.

When our father took her in marriage, he gave a wedding-feast and invited three of his friends as well as his relatives, and he gave a marriage-banquet to the members of his ward according to their statutes.

Again, our father at our birth introduced us to the members of his ward, having declared on oath, in accordance with the established laws, that he was introducing the children of an Athenian mother duly married;

My grandfather received her back again—without, however, recovering the dowry which he had given, owing to the embarrassed condition of Nausimenes' affairs—and gave her in a second marriage to my father with a dowry of one thousand drachmae.