Onetor during 362 and 361 BC. The courts fixed Demosthenes's damages at ten talents. When all the trials came to an end, he succeeded in recovering only a portion of his inheritance.

According to Pseudo-Plutarch, Demosthenes was married once. The only information about his wife, whose name is unknown, is that she was the daughter of Heliodorus, a prominent citizen. Demosthenes also had a daughter, "the only one who ever called him father", according to Aeschines in a trenchant remark. His