Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 37

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[37] My grandfather, men of Athens , the father of my mother, was Damostratus of Melitê.¹ To him were born four children; by his first wife a daughter and a son Amytheon, and by his second wife Chaerestratê my mother and Timocrates. These also had children. Amytheon had a son Damostratus, who bore the same name as his grandfather, and two others, Callistratus and Dexitheus. Amytheon, my mother’s brother, was one of those who served in the campaign in Sicily ² and were killed there, and he lies buried in the public tomb.³ These facts will be proved to you by testimony.

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

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Euxitheus Against Eubulides, an Appeal (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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ἔφεσις πρὸς Εὐβουλίδην Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 37 focus

[37] ἐμοὶ γὰρ ἦν πάππος, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τῆς μητρὸς πατήρ, Δαμόστρατος Μελιτεύς. τούτῳ γίγνονται τέτταρες παῖδες, ἐκ μὲν ἧς τὸ πρῶτον ἔσχεν γυναικὸς θυγάτηρ καὶ υἱὸς ᾧ ὄνομʼ Ἀμυθέων, ἐκ δὲ τῆς ὕστερον, Χαιρεστράτης, ἡ μήτηρ ἡ ἐμὴ καὶ Τιμοκράτης. τούτοις δὲ γίγνονται παῖδες, τῷ μὲν Ἀμυθέωνι Δαμόστρατος, τοῦ πάππου τοὔνομʼ ἔχων, καὶ Καλλίστρατος καὶ Δεξίθεος. καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀμυθέων ὁ τῆς μητρὸς ἀδελφὸς τῶν ἐν Σικελίᾳ στρατευσαμένων καὶ τελευτησάντων ἐστίν, καὶ τέθαπται ἐν τοῖς δημοσίοις μνήμασιν· καὶ ταῦτα μαρτυρήσεται.

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Against Eubulides

1. Melitê, a deme of the tribe Cecropis.

2. The disastrous expedition to Sicily was sent out in 415 B.C.

3. A cenotaph, of course.

Demosthenes Against Eubulides 37

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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