The Speaker (unnamed plaintiff)
“unnamed plaintiff”
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 12 anchored passages
I · the plaintiff · the speaker · a sharer in this loan · an orphan · the adoptive son · we
in the texts
Against Dionysodorus
Unnamed first-person narrator and plaintiff, an overseas trader who supplied part of the loan capital to Dionysodorus and Parmeniscus though the written contract named Pamphilus as lender; he narrates the case and prosecutes it before the jury.
To prove that I am speaking the truth, the clerk shall read you the challenge which I gave Dionysodorus concerning these matters.
When, however, we made no headway in talking about the agreement and our rights, we demanded that he at any rate pay us back the amount loaned with the interest as originally agreed upon.
We lent this fellow Dionysodorus and his partner three thousand drachmae for a voyage from Athens to Egypt and from Egypt to Athens;
Against Onetor II
The unnamed orphan plaintiff, former ward of Aphobus, who brings this speech to recover property Onetor's false dowry claims have kept from him.
And was it right for you to recover the whole amount, while I, who had been awarded damages against him, I, an orphan who had been wronged and robbed of a marriage-portion that was genuine, I who with better right than any other man should have been exempted from the risk of having to pay costs, should be forced to suffer thus, and should have recovered nothing whatever, though ready to meet any o …
When, however, the trial against him had been decided, and he saw what your attitude was toward those who were too brazen in their wrongdoings, he came to his senses, and concluded that I should appear to be suffering outrageous treatment, if, after being robbed of such large sums, I should be unable to recover anything whatever from Aphobus, who had my property in his possession, but it should be …
With what end in view, Onetor, did you fix your pillars on the house for the two thousand extra drachmae, when you were demanding eighty minae, if the land was really worth more, instead of securing the two thousand drachmae also by a mortgage on the land?
Aegineticus
The anonymous narrator of the speech, a Siphnian who was adopted by Thrasylochus, married his sister, and now defends the will against the female claimant.
I was of opinion, citizens of Aegina, that Thrasylochus had arranged his affairs so prudently that no one should ever come before a court to bring a suit in opposition to the will which he left.
But the truth is, she is so far from repenting of her misconduct towards Thrasylochus in his life-time, that now too that he is dead she is trying to annul his will and to leave the home without heirs.
Nevertheless he left nothing undone to reward me, and when he was in a grievous condition and had given up all hope of life, he summoned witnesses, made me his adoptive son, and gave me his sister and his fortune.