Now I will inform you, in the first place, of the way in which they 1 became connected with us. Conon, who was in command of operations around the Peloponnese , 2 and who had formed a friendship long before with my father when he equipped a warship, requested him to bestow my sister on her suitor, the son of Nicophemus.
On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.
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