The Will of Demosthenes' Father
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his will · the will · my father's will
in the texts
Against Aphobus II
The father's testamentary document specifying the guardianship, dowries, and disposition of the estate, which the guardians allegedly suppressed.
Strangest of all is it that, though they allege that my father would not permit them to let the property, they should never produce this will from which one could have learned the truth, and that having destroyed so important a piece of evidence, they should expect you to believe them on their mere word.
but the will itself, which gave them possession of the papers to which they affixed their seals, and all the rest of the property, and which acquitted them of all responsibility for not letting the estate, they did not seal, nor yet produce.
That these items were written in the will, and were received by them, is proved by their testimony against one another.
Against Aphobus III
The written will of Demosthenes's father, containing an inventory of the estate and instructions for letting the property, allegedly suppressed by Aphobus.
For although my father, men of the jury, wrote a will containing an inventory of all that he left, with instructions for letting the property, this will Aphobus never gave up to me, lest I should learn from it the value of the estate, and admitted possessing only those items which were so well known that he could not deny that he had them.
that he did not give over the will, nor let the house, although the laws so bade;
The will, according to his statement, contained these provisions: