Isocrates, Antidosis, George Norlin (Translator), 38

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[38] And you will observe that those who live upon your contracts and the litigation connected with them are all but domiciled in the courts of law, while no one has ever seen me either at the council-board,¹ or at the preliminaries,² or in the courts,³ or before the arbitrators⁴; on the contrary, I have kept aloof from all these more than any of my fellow-citizens.

Antidosis. Isocrates. George Norlin (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1928.

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Antidosis (English) (Isocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).)

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Περὶ ἀντιδόσεως Perseus (Isocrates, Vol 2. Norlin, George, editor. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1929 (printing).) — 38 focus

[38] τοὺς μὲν τοίνυν ἀπὸ τῶν συμβολαίων τῶν ὑμετέρων ζῶντας καὶ τῆς περὶ ταῦτα πραγματείας ἴδοιτʼ ἂν μόνον οὐκ ἐν τοῖς δικαστηρίοις οἰκοῦντας, ἐμὲ δʼ οὐδεὶς πώποθʼ ἑώρακεν οὔτʼ ἐν τοῖς συνεδρίοις οὔτε περὶ τὰς ἀνακρίσεις οὔτʼ ἐπὶ τοῖς δικαστηρίοις οὔτε πρὸς τοῖς διαιτηταῖς, ἀλλʼ οὕτως ἀπέχομαι τούτων ἁπάντων ὡς οὐδεὶς ἄλλος τῶν πολιτῶν.

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Antidosis

1. The συνέδριον, a board made up of the six junior archons called Thesmothetae, had jurisdiction over a large number of offenses against the state.

2. The ἀνάκρισις was any preliminary hearing before an appropriate magistrate.

3. The regular Heliastic jury-panels. See Isoc. 7.54 , note.

4. Cf. Isoc. 15.27 , note.

Isocrates Antidosis 38

George Norlin (Translator)

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