Demosthenes, Against Stephanus I, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 35

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[35] And would he have begrudged him the banking business, in which he might have given him a share without disgrace, and yet have given him his wife, a bequest disgraceful above all others? Yes, after receiving from you the gift of citizenship, he gave his wife (if indeed he gave her) as a slave giving to his master, and not, on the contrary, as a master to a slave, and he added such a dowry as no man in Athens was ever known to give.¹

Against Stephanus I. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Apollodorus Against Stephanus, Charged with False Testimony I (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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[35] καὶ τῆς μὲν ἐργασίας ἐφθόνησεν, ἧς οὐδὲν αἰσχρὸν ἦν μεταδοῦναι· τὴν δὲ γυναῖκʼ ἔδωκεν, οὗ μεῖζον οὐδὲν ἂν κατέλιπεν ὄνειδος, τυχών γε τῆς παρʼ ὑμῶν δωρεᾶς, εἶθʼ ὥσπερ ἂν δοῦλος δεσπότῃ διδούς, ἀλλʼ οὐ τοὐναντίον, εἴπερ ἐδίδου, δεσπότης οἰκέτῃ, προστιθεὶς προῖκα ὅσην οὐδεὶς τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει φαίνεται;

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Against Stephanus I

1. The mother of Demosthenes brought to her husband a dowry of only 80 minae ( Dem. 27.5 ); the mother of Mantitheus one of 60 minae ( Dem. 40.6 ); and the two daughters of Polyeuctus dowries of 40 minae each ( Dem. 41.3 and Dem. 41.27 ).

Demosthenes Against Stephanus I 35

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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