Isocrates, Against Callimachus, ed. Larue Van Hook, 10

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[10] καὶ ὅτι τύχῃ μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ δικαίῳ κρίνεται τὰ παρʼ ὑμῖν, ὥστε λυσιτελεῖν μοι μίκρʼ ἀναλώσαντι μεγάλων ἐγκλημάτων ἀπαλλαγῆναι μᾶλλον ἢ μηδὲν ἀποτείσαντι κινδυνεύειν περὶ τηλικούτων. τί δʼ ἂν ὑμῖν τὰ πολλὰ καθʼ ἕκαστον διηγοίμην;¹ οὐδὲν γὰρ² παρέλιπον τῶν εἰθισμένων περὶ τῶν τοιούτων λέγεσθαι. τελευτῶν δʼ οὖν ἐπείσθην, ἅπαντα γὰρ εἰρήσεται τἀληθῆ πρὸς ὑμᾶς, δοῦναι τούτῳ διακοσίας δραχμάς. ἵνα δὲ μὴ πάλιν ἐξείη συκοφαντεῖν αὐτῷ, δίαιταν ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς ἐπετρέψαμεν Νικομάχῳ Βατῆθεν.

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Against Callimachus. Isocrates. ed. Larue Van Hook. Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Παραγραφή πρὸς Καλλίμαχον (Greek) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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Against Callimachus Perseus (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).) — 10 focus

[10] and that chance rather than justice determined the issue in your courts. Consequently, they asserted, it was in my interest to be freed of serious charges by paying a petty sum, rather than by paying nothing to run the risk of penalties of such gravity. Why need I relate to you all the details? They omitted none of the arguments which are customarily urged in such cases. In any case I was finally prevailed upon (for I will tell you the whole truth) to give him two hundred drachmas. But in order that it might not be in his power to blackmail me again, we committed the arbitration under stated terms¹ to Nicomachus of Bat ²

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Against Callimachus

1. τί δ’ ἂν ὑμῖν τὰ πολλὰ καθ’ ἕκαστον διηγοίμην vulg. Blass omits δʼ and καθ’ ἕκαστον.

2. οὐδὲν γὰρ added by Blass.

Isocrates Against Callimachus 10

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