Aphidna
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Against Timarchus
An Athenian deme, named as Nicodemus' home deme in the account of his violent death.
So he became prompter and teacher of the young man in conduct which has made Aristarchus an exile from his fatherland, while Demosthenes, getting hold of the money that was to support him in in his banishment, has cheated him out of three talents, and, at the hands of Aristarchus, Nicodemus of Aphidna has met a violent death, poor man!
On the Embassy
Athenian deme associated with Nicodemus.
but you, who claim to be a man—that you really are a man I should not venture to say—you were once indicted for desertion, and you saved yourself by buying off the man who indicted you, Nicodemus of Aphidna, whom afterward you helped Aristarchus to destroy;
Against Stephanus I
Deme affiliation of Cephisophon.
Cephisophon, son of Cephalion, of Aphidna, deposes that a document was left him by his father, on which was inscribed the will of Pasio.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Deme where Apollodorus allegedly went in search of a runaway slave and where Stephanus falsely claimed he struck and killed a woman.
He brought a false charge against him that, having once gone to Aphidna in search of a runaway slave of his, he had there struck a woman, and that she had died of the blow;
On the Estate of Philoctemon
The deme of Democrates, whose sister Euctemon threatened to marry.
When, however, his son Philoctemon refused to agree to this, and the members of the ward would not admit the boy, and the victim for the sacrifice of admission was removed from the altar, Euctemon, being enraged against his son and wishing to pay him out, announced his intention of marrying a sister of Democrates of Aphidna and recognizing any children who should be born to her and bringing them i …
Helen
Settlement in Attica where Theseus established Helen after her abduction.
And when he was unable to obtain her from her guardians—for they were awaiting her maturity and the fulfilment of the oracle which the Pythian priestess had given—scorning the royal power of Tyndareus, disdaining the might of Castor and Pollux, and belittling all the hazards in Lacedaemon, he seized her by force and established her at Aphidna in Attica.