Demosthenes, Against Leochares, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 18

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[18] They made as yet no division of the property, but, both having enough to live on, Meidylides continued to live in the city, and Archiades made his home in Salamis. Not long afterward, when Meidylides, my father’s grandfather, happened to go on a journey out of the country, Archiades fell sick, and died during the absence of Meidylides, being still unmarried. What is the proof of this? A maiden bearing an urn for water¹ stands upon the tomb of Archiades.

Against Leochares. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Aristodemus Against Leochares Regarding the Estate of Archiades (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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πρὸς Λεωκάρη περὶ τοῦ Ἀρχιάδου κλήρου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 18 focus

[18] καὶ οὐδέπω τὴν οὐσίαν ἐνέμοντο, ἀλλʼ ἑκάτερος ἔχων τὰ ἱκανὰ ὁ μὲν Μειδυλίδης ἐν τῷ ἄστει διέμενεν, ὁ δὲ Ἀρχιάδης ἐν Σαλαμῖνι ᾤκει. οὐ πολλῷ δὲ χρόνῳ ὕστερον ἀποδημίας τινὸς εἰς τὴν ὑπερορίαν συμβάσης τῷ Μειδυλίδῃ τῷ πάππῳ τῷ τοῦ πατρός, ἠρρώστησεν ὁ Ἀρχιάδης, καὶ τελευτᾷ τὸν βίον ἀπόντος τοῦ Μειδυλίδου ἄγαμος ὤν. τί τούτου σημεῖον; λουτροφόρος ἐφέστηκεν ἐπὶ τῷ τοῦ Ἀρχιάδου τάφῳ.

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Against Leochares

1. We are told by Pollux Onomasticon 8.66 that the figure of a maiden bearing a water-pitcher was placed over the tombs of men who died unmarried. Other authorities state that the figure was that of a youth, not of a maiden.

Demosthenes Against Leochares 18

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