Demosthenes, On Halonnesus, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 12

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[12] though intercourse between the two nations was more frequent then than now. For Macedonia was under our sway and tributary to us,¹ and we used each other’s markets more freely then than at present, and mercantile suits² were not then, as now, settled strictly every month, making a formal compact between such distant parties unnecessary.

On Halonnesus. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1930.

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On Halonnesus (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. I: Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Speeches, Speech Against Leptines, I-XVII, XX. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930 (printing).)

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περὶ Ἀλοννήσου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 12 focus

[12] καίτοι πλείους γε ἦσαν αἱ ἐπιμειξίαι τότε πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἢ νῦν εἰσίν· ὑφʼ ἡμῖν γὰρ ἦν ἡ Μακεδονία καὶ φόρους ἡμῖν ἔφερον, καὶ τοῖς ἐμπορίοις τότε μᾶλλον ἢ νῦν ἡμεῖς τε τοῖς ἐκεῖ κἀκεῖνοι τοῖς παρʼ ἡμῖν ἐχρῶντο, καὶ ἐμπορικαὶ δίκαι οὐκ ἦσαν, ὥσπερ νῦν, ἀκριβεῖς, αἱ κατὰ μῆνα, ποιοῦσαι μηδὲν δεῖσθαι συμβόλων τοὺς τοσοῦτον ἀλλήλων ἀπέχοντας.

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On Halonnesus

1. The speaker is improving on the claim made by Demosthenes in Dem. 3.24 . Macedonia was never really subject or tributary to Athens .

2. Also called ἔμμηνοι δίκαι, because they had to be settled within a month. They were heard, under the presidency of the Thesmothetae, during the six winter months, when the seas were closed to commerce.

Demosthenes On Halonnesus 12

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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