Stephanus
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 19 anchored passages
this man Stephanus · this fellow Stephanus · Stephanus here · Stephanus, son of Menecles · he · the defendant · this Stephanus · this fellow
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Athenian man, described as a former pettifogger/sycophant, who lives with Neaera as his wife, has prosecuted Apollodorus twice on false charges, and is accused of passing Neaera's children off as his own citizen offspring.
The daughter of this woman Neaera, whom she brought with her as a small child to the house of Stephanus, and whom they then called Strybele, but now call Phano, was given in marriage by this fellow Stephanus as being his own daughter to an Athenian, Phrastor, of Aegilia;
Phrastor, seeing that she was not a decent woman and that she was not minded to listen to his advice, and, further, having learned now beyond all question that she was the daughter, not of Stephanus, but of Neaera, and that he had been deceived in the first place at the time of the betrothal, when he had received her as the daughter, not of Neaera, but of Stephanus by an Athenian woman, whom he ha …
And as Stephanus here sought to deprive me of my relatives contrary to your laws and your decrees, so I too have come before you to prove that Stephanus is living with an alien woman contrary to the law;
On the Embassy
An ambassador named alongside Aeschines and Dercylus in the account of the later embassy.
and when, before my coming and that of Stephanus, Dercylus, and the rest of the ambassadors, Phalaecus already made terms and departed;
On the Mysteries
A witness whom Andocides asks to call.
Kindly call Callias and Stephanus—yes, and call Philippus and Alexippus.
Against Stephanus I
The defendant, an Athenian witness accused of false testimony, document theft, greed, and betrayal of kin.
Phormio on his part, seeing that everything would be brought to light, and that he would be proved to have acted toward me as the basest of humankind, contrived and concocted this plot in furtherance of which the defendant Stephanus gave this false testimony against me.
I shall prove to you that this man Stephanus has both given false testimony, and has done this from a base desire for gain, and that he is convicted out of his own lips;
Apollodorus, son of Pasio, of Acharnae, sues Stephanus, son of Menecles, of Acharnae, for false testimony;
Against Stephanus II
The defendant in the false-testimony case, alleged to have testified unlawfully that a document was a copy of Pasio's will.
Now, then, consider the laws, and see from whom they ordain that betrothals should be made, that you may come to know from them also, that this fellow Stephanus has proved himself to be a false witness to a forged will.
Well then, seeing that the sons are alive, the will which these men say my father left is invalid, and this man Stephanus has borne false witness in defiance of all the laws, in declaring that the document is a copy of Pasio’s will.
Now Stephanus here, without knowing that my father left a will or having ever been present when he drew one up, but having been told this by Phormio, has given hearsay evidence which is false, and has done it in defiance of the law.