Isaeus On the Estate of Philoctemon 27

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It was after this, then, that Philoctemon died by the enemy's hands while commanding a trireme off Chios . ¹ Some time later Euctemon informed his sons-in-law that he wished to make a written record of his arrangement with his son and place it in safe place. Phanostratus was on the point of setting out with Timotheus ² in command of a trireme, and his ship lying at anchor at Munychia, ³ and his brother-in-law Chaereas was there bidding him farewell. Euctemon, taking certain persons with him, came to where the ship was anchored, and having drawn up a document detailing the conditions under which he introduced the child, deposited it in the presence of those men with his relative Pythodorus of Cephisia.