A 96-year-old Athenian moved into his brothel, tried to make a former prostitute's son his heir, and lay dead for two days while his house was emptied

The source is a speech written for one side of an Athenian lawsuit. Euctemon lived to 96 and was rich enough for his family to pay for costly public offices. A freedwoman of his ran a tenement house at the Piraeus and kept prostitutes. One of them, Alce, later managed his tenement house in the Cerameicus. Euctemon went there to collect rent, began taking meals there, and in the end lived there, leaving his wife, children and home. The speaker says that through drugs, disease or something else, Alce persuaded him to have her elder son registered in his clan under his own name. His son Philoctemon refused. Euctemon then threatened to marry the sister of Democrates of Aphidna and have new children. The relatives advised Philoctemon to give way, and the boy was registered with a single farm. Philoctemon was killed commanding a warship off Chios. Euctemon cancelled the document recording the settlement and sold a farm for 75 minae, a bath house for 3,000 drachmas, goats, mules and his craftsman slaves, more than three talents in all. Two men registered Alce's sons as adopted heirs of his dead sons and tried to lease the houses as orphans' property; the court refused. When Euctemon died, they shut in the slaves so the news would not reach his wife and daughters and moved the furniture next door. The women were kept out until sunset and found him two days dead in a stripped house. The verdict is not recorded.