marriage portion
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
dower · portion
in the texts
Against Phaenippus
The dowry associated with Aristonoê, presented by Phaenippus as a debt.
He declares that a debt is owing to her for her marriage portion, but of this the laws make him the owner.
Against Stephanus I
The dowry or marriage portion discussed in relation to Phormio and the speaker's daughters.
If Phormio had been poor, and it had been our fortune to be wealthy, and if, in the course of nature, anything had happened to me, this fellow’s sons would have claimed my daughters in marriage—the sons of the slave would have claimed the daughters of the master!
But for himself he has not scrupled to marry his mistress, and he dwells as husband with her who scattered the sweatmeats over him when he was bought as a slave, nor to write a clause giving himself a marriage portion of five talents in addition to the large sums of which he became master, inasmuch as they were in the custody of my mother—for why do you suppose he wrote in the will the clause and …