One thousand drachmae
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a thousand drachmae · one thousand drachmae · thousand drachmae
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Against Boeotus II
Loan amount borrowed for the father's funeral.
I also borrowed another thousand drachmae from Lysistratus of Thoricus for my father’s funeral, and have personally paid the debt.
Against Callicles
The sum sought or awarded in the suits, presented as excessive relative to the damage.
So trivial, men of the jury, was the loss that befell them, yet for this I am made defendant in a suit with damages fixed at a thousand drachmae!
then, again, he secured two awards against me for default, one in an action brought in his own name for one thousand drachmae, and another in an action which he persuaded his brother Callicrates, who is here in court, to bring.
Could there, then, be people more shameless than these, or more plainly malicious pettifoggers—men who, after advancing their own wall and raising the level of the road, are suing others for damages, and that too for a fixed sum of a thousand drachmae, when they have themselves lost fifty at most?